The U.S. Air Force 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. and Northrop Grumman [NOC] began Launch Control Center Block Upgrades (LCCBU) this month to modernize support equipment for the Boeing [BA] Minuteman III ICBMs, the 90th Missile Wing said. The effort began at the Kilo-01 missile alert ...
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Navy officials this week said the service plans to decide by fiscal year 2026 if it will extend the USS Alaska (SSBN-732) as the first of several Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) getting limited life extensions starting in 2029. Given the risks in transitioning from the 14-ship ...
Development of the Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) to replace the Boeing [BA] AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) has raised no technology readiness level (TRL) concerns thus far, U.S. Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, the commander of Air Force ...
The Navy successfully conducted a two-missile flight test of unarmed life-extended Trident II (D5LE) missiles from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) on Sept. 17. This test was part of a Demonstration and Shakedown Operation, called DASO-31, that aimed to evaluate and ...
The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday argued for the importance of integrating the Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Reviews, either as a new combined Strategic Deterrence Review or making sure to keep them aligned. “The key piece is it has to be integrated,” Air ...
The commander of U.S. Strategic Command said Tuesday the Pentagon must continue to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a next-generation system and it cannot undergo further life extension. “Let me be very clear – you cannot life extend Minuteman III. It ...