The Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program is a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) that will replace the current inventory of 400 Minuteman III ICBMs. This massive ...

The Air Force has stood ready to defend the US with its nuclear-armedMinuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles for over 50 years. Now the service might be forced to extend that into the 2050s, ...

For decades, the United States has fielded a nuclear “triad” consisting of nuclear-capable bombers, ballistic missile submarines, and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). All three of these ...

Lost in the shuffle of constant news of negotiations to finally end the U.S-Iranian war and the rise of fuel prices with a global oil shortage is the status of the American nuclear weapons program.

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its ...

Northrop Grumman tested the motor in the vacuum chamber in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, continuing the development of the Minuteman III's replacement. Northrop Grumman has test fired the ...

The U.S. Air Force’s new intercontinental ballistic missile won’t have its first flight test until February 2026, documents show, putting the costly program further behind schedule. The new date is a ...

As per the official numbers, the U.S. has exactly 400 LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) at its disposal, all of them capable of carrying nuclear warheads and all under ...

The U.S. Air Force will pay the bill to modify a Boeing 747-8 obtained from the Qatari government into a temporary presidential transport aircraft using funds diverted from the delayed Northrop ...