Comment:  This link contains a video interview between MG Collin Conner and Kris Osborn.

https://warriormaven.com/news/air/on-track-for-2030-us-air-force-builds-new-silos-for-450-sentinel-icbms

by Kris Osborn, Warrior President June 20, 2025

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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 deliver an operational missile in the early 2030s. 

The Sentinel ICBM weapon is expected to deliver a new generation of paradigm-changing technologies capable of more precisely hitting a wider scope of targets with diverse nuclear payloads across longer ranges with greater precision. Perhaps of greatest significance, the Sentinel is being built to be more “reliable” and “resilient,” meaning it will be much more likely to survive countermeasures and missile defenses and successfully continue on its trajectory to an intended target. 

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“One of the things we've learned as we've gone through this is the original plan was to use the Miniman III Silos. One of the design changes is we're not going to use the Miniman III Silos. We're going to build new Silos. There are a variety of reasons, but the biggest one I give you is, those Silos were drilled in the 1960s. If we used them for the lifespan of Sentinel, they'd be 110 years old,” Connor explained. “We will operate a system on infrastructure that supports it because, with the Sentinel program, it is not just the missile. We're actually replacing the launch silos, the command and control facilities and the command and control lines.I mean, heck, we still use copper lines to communicate in the Minuteman system. It's time for an upgrade, right? We're going to use modern technology.”