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Drive to Replace Capacitors for Refurbished Nukes Causing Delays for ICBM Fuze Modernization

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Drive to Replace Capacitors for Refurbished Nukes Causing Delays for ICBM Fuze Modernization
U.S. Air Force airmen from the 576th Flight Test Squadron missile handling team install a cable raceway on an intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 3, 2014. The missile handling team transports and handles ICBMs and performs operational check-out actions of the flight destruct ordnance package on the Minuteman III boosters. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/RELEASED)

Complications with the B61-12 and W88 Alt-370 programs might delay production of new intercontinental ballistic missile fuzes at the Department of Energy's Kansas City National Security Campus by more than a year, Pentagon budget documents show. The Air Force will need 10 months longer than expected, 41 months total, to purchase long-lead parts for the the ICBM Fuze Modernization program: a drive to replace the fuzes that set of the W87 nuclear warheads of the Minuteman III and its planned…

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