Troubled Sentinel ICBM Program Still Being Restructured Nearly Two Years After Cost Breach

A top Air Force general sees a long future for Sentinel after it enters service, but there is still a murky and increasingly ...
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The Air Force’s LGM-35A ‘Sentinel’ $141,000,000,000 Nightmare

Key Points and Summary on the LGM-35A - The LGM-35A Sentinel program, intended to modernize the land-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, is a "nightmare" of mismanagement and cost overruns. -The ...
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Nothing stopping runaway gravy train for new land-based nuke

The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nuclear weapons program, in which the Air Force is moving to replace its old land-based nuclear missiles with new ones, has been troubled from ...
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Air Force Diverting Money From Missile Project for President’s Jet Overhaul

The U.S. Air Force is redirecting "surplus" funds from the LGM-35 Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program. These funds will pay for the overhaul of a 13-year-old Boeing 747-8 jet, ...
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Northrop Grumman and USAF Test-Fire Sentinel ICBM’s Stage-Two Rocket Motor

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...
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Crumbling silos, rushed deals – how US blew missile budget by billions

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 ...