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Air Force’s Aging Nuclear Cruise Missile Has Become Hard to Maintain, General Says

By Marc Selinger

Monday, July 3rd, 2017

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The U.S. Air Force’s aging, nuclear-armed, air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is experiencing “significant reliability challenges,” underscoring the need to develop a replacement, a key general said June 20.All elements of the ALCM vehicle, including the engine, have reliability problems, forcing maintainers and operators to go to great lengths to keep the decades-old missile in service, according to Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the head of U.S. Strategic Command.“If you want to see an ancient weapon system, go look at that…

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