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tipsy

13 September, 2025

How hard is it to design a new missle? It’s not rocket science.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-extend-50-year-old-icbms-new-delayed-2025-9

By Chris Panella

Sep 13, 2025, 4:14 AM ET

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• The US Air Force's new ICBM Sentinel faces major delays and cost overruns.
• The service may have to rely on its 50-year-old Minuteman III's for much longer than anticipated.
• A host of logistical and construction issues, like new silos, have hurt Sentinel's development.

The Air Force has stood ready to defend the US with its nuclear-armed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles for over 50 years. Now the service might be forced to extend that into the 2050s, a new report said.

Officials plan to replace the aging Minuteman III with the new Sentinel ICBM, but severe cost overruns and delays have curtailed that nuclear missile program and left the Pentagon struggling to figure out solutions.

According to the US Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency that reports to Congress, the Air Force believes it must continue to maintain Minuteman III missiles over the next decade and beyond while Sentinel is completed. Sentinel, manufactured by Northrop Grumman, was originally planned to replace all 450 Minuteman III missiles beginning later this decade at an estimated cost of $78 billion.