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Nuke Agency Watching Sentinel Testflight Schedule as Air Force Nunn-McCurdy Review Grinds On

Nuke Agency Watching Sentinel Testflight Schedule as Air Force Nunn-McCurdy Review Grinds On
Pictured is a U.S. Air Force depiction of the LGM-35A Sentinel (U.S. Air Force)

The schedule for one of Sentinel’s nuclear warheads will not change until at least the end of the Air Force’s review of the budget-busting missile, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said Tuesday. The civilian agency will stick to its current schedule for the W87-1 warhead throughout the Air Force’s ongoing Nunn-McCurdy review of the silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile, “or perhaps beyond,” Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said during a hearing in the…

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