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Town Halls for USAF LGM-35A Sentinel to Restart This Month

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Town Halls for USAF LGM-35A Sentinel to Restart This Month
Pictured is a Northrop Grumman photo of an inert LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile on a test pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. In September, the Air Force said that the vertical integration test event, called Pathfinder, had demonstrated the maturity of the missile's design and verified that all critical subsystems are on track for initial flight testing in 2027.

Town halls to gather community input on the U.S. Air Force's future LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC] are to restart this month, as the service prepares a supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) brought on by the program's 2024 Nunn-McCurdy critical cost breach and the resulting program restructure, which has included a move to all new silos for the Sentinel missile, which is larger than the current 1970s era Minuteman III ICBMs by Boeing [BA]. The Air Force deemed…

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