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USAF Gives Go Ahead to Start Construction of Support Infrastructure for Sentinel

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USAF Gives Go Ahead to Start Construction of Support Infrastructure for Sentinel
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center conducted its first full-scale static test fire of the LGM-35A Sentinel stage-one solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman test facility in Promontory, Utah on March 2 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Robert Moriarty, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Installations, has given the go-ahead to start the support construction phase for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM. The Department of the Air Force's (DAF) 450 missile silos--launch facilities (LFs)--and 45 missile alert facilities (MAFs) "would be updated extensively to completely refurbished condition to meet the requirements of the Sentinel system," according to a May 19th final Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision signed by Moriarty. "Sentinel…

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