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Air Force secretary nominee pledges to focus on nuclear modernization
Air Force Secretary nominee Troy Meink said he would review the report on the LGM-35A Sentinel that followed its severe cost projection overruns.
Air Force’s next nuclear missile at risk after costs spike
The LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missile has seen its costs increase at least 37%, triggering a review that could see the program restructured or canceled.
New ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of Cold War era
A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel.
By Tara Copp, AP
US Air Force’s Sentinel missile ‘struggling,’ faces rising costs
It has been decades since the Air Force last developed a nuclear missile, the secretary says, and surprise issues are cropping up.
White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent
Journalist Vivek Raghuvanshi was jailed in mid-May by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of espionage.
Lawmakers demand answers after priests booted from Walter Reed campus
Catholic clergy from Holy Name College had been serving at Walter Reed for nearly two decades before being barred from entry late last month.
Republican budget plan will ‘undermine’ US security, warns Biden admin
The Biden administration is portraying plans from Republicans to gut the federal budget as jeopardizing national security.
By Joe Gould
US test launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile
The Minuteman III's reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles over the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
From howitzers to suicide drones: Pentagon seeks right ‘balance’ on training Ukrainians on new arms
As the war in Ukraine drags into its third month, the United States is trying to figure out the best way – and the best pace – to train Ukrainian troops on how to use the Western arms flooding into the besieged nation.
Here’s the new name of the US Air Force’s next-gen nuke
The Air Force considered historical relevance, the link to the mission, aggressiveness, popularity, simplicity and recognition as it chose the final name for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent.
Soldiers integrate air defense for the first time in major Alaska exercise
Soldiers armed with the Patriot, Sentinel and Avenger systems all deployed to the frigid terrain.
By Todd South