AURORA, Colorado— The Pentagon won’t have new cost estimates for the way-over-budget Sentinel intercontinental ballistic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attendees tour the LGM-35A Sentinel munitions storage igloos at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, Dec. 1, 2025. (Staff Sgt.

The Sentinel nuclear missile was originally scheduled for testing in 2026, but faced significant delays after its skyrocketing budget triggered a rare Nunn-McCurdy breach.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The LGM-35A Sentinel is expected to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III program in the 2030s. (U.S. Air Force) The U.S. Air ...

Software delays related to the U.S. Air Force’s future LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile could pose “significant risks” to the program, requiring the U.S. to continue using the ...

The troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program will hit a key milestone by year’s end, with hopes to deliver the initial ICBM by the early 2030s, Pentagon and Air Force officials ...

The new LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile being developed for the U.S. Air Force is on track with initial capability tests to allow for a decision by the end of the year on whether ...

The Air Force has developed planning documents for the transition from Minuteman III to Sentinel but has not developed a risk management plan. The transition was planned to begin in fiscal year 2025, ...

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 ...

Attendees tour the LGM-35A Sentinel munitions storage igloos at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, Dec. 1, 2025. (Staff Sgt. Joshua LeRoi/Space Force) The U.S. Air Force’s troubled Sentinel ...

The U.S. Air Force said Tuesday it expects its next-generation LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missile to reach initial capability in the early 2030s, following a revamp of the over-budget program's ...

The U.S. Air Force's troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program faces significant risks from software delays and an extended reliance on the aging Minuteman III system. However, a ...