The Air Force hoped to reuse existing silos for Minuteman III nuclear missiles for the upcoming Sentinel program, but has concluded it will have to dig new silos. (A1C Braydon Williams/Air Force) The ...

If all goes according to plan, the Sentinel program will go operational in 2030 and serve through 2075. This year, America’s Minuteman III nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will be ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force will host a Sentinel Program Town Hall from 6 to 8 p.m., March 31, 2024, at Prairie High School in New Raymer, Colorado. The meeting aims to provide residents and landowners with ...

PROMONTORY — The United States Air Force and Northrop Grumman achieved a milestone last week in their efforts to modernize the land-based component of the country’s nuclear triad. According to an Air ...

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 ...

At this point, trying to fix the Sentinel system may simply be a case of throwing good money after bad. America’s nuclear weapons arsenal is the last line of defense between the United States and a ...

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 ...