The troubled LGM-35 Sentinel ICBM program hit another hurdle as new assessments reveal a previous plan to re-use LGM-30 Minuteman III missile silos may not be feasible. Breaking Defense reports that ...

Officially released photos show special weapons system mechanics conducting maintenance on nuclear-capable Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) boosters. This comes after the U.S.

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test May 21, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, before flying 4,200 miles to a test center in ...

An Air Force firefighter rappels down a training missile silo during a training exercise at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming on Oct. 26, 2024. (Photo by Hunter C. Kirkland/U.S. Air Force) At a ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

The Air Force is asking Congress to pass legislation to restrict further construction of towering wind turbines that have edged in closer to its nuclear missile sites. The ground-based silos share ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base as part of the ICBM test program on Wednesday, ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE, Calif. – An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday as part of a test of the nation's nuclear launch capabilities.

Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a revamped weapons modernization effort slated to ...

The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel – had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion. (That’s the equivalent of Americans ...