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DoE May Need to Ready First GBSD Warhead Variant for Tests in Three Years, AF Official Says

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DoE May Need to Ready First GBSD Warhead Variant for Tests in Three Years, AF Official Says
The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM. Photo: Air Force.

The Department of Energy may need to start qualifying the W87 warhead for service aboard Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Missiles in roughly three years, the Air Force’s program director for the next-generation nuke launcher said Thursday. The first test flights for the silo-based missiles that will replace Minuteman III will be in “three years or so, give or take,” and test versions of new launcher’s W87-0 variant “need to be ready to fly when we start testing,” Air Force Col.…

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