
The Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM, which has a significantly larger design than its predecessor 1960s-era Minuteman missile series, is to have new silos, U.S. Air Force leaders told community leaders during program town halls in Kimball, Neb., and Pine Bluffs, Wyo., on Apr. 1 and 2. The Minuteman "silos are already really old so if we use them for Sentinel, they are going to be over a century old," Col. James Rodriguez, Sentinel program infrastructure and deployment division director,…