Comment:  This is a well written article which gives hope for a good outcome as Sentinel becomes a reality.

https://boltflight.com/u-s-air-force-reboots-sentinel-icbm-program-targets-2027-pad-launch-after-cost-reset/

"U.S. Air Force Reboots Sentinel ICBM Program,
Targets 2027 Pad Launch After Cost Reset"

By Wiley Stickney

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The U.S. Air Force has moved decisively to restore momentum to the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, setting a firm target for a first missile pad launch in 2027 and aiming to regain Milestone B approval by the end of 2026. The reset follows a turbulent period marked by a 2024 Nunn–McCurdy breach, a statutory signal that cost growth had exceeded acceptable thresholds and triggered a comprehensive restructuring of the program. The latest update frames Sentinel not as a single missile replacement but as a full-scale modernization of the land-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, designed to deliver reliability, decision advantage, and infrastructure resilience well into the early 2030s and beyond.

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If the reset holds, Sentinel will do more than replace Minuteman III hardware. It will reassert the strategic logic of a dispersed, hardened, always-ready land-based deterrent in an era defined by mobile missiles, multi-warhead buses, and shrinking warning timelines. The program’s success would signal that the United States can modernize its most consequential strategic systems without surrendering control to cost spirals or institutional inertia. The 2027 pad launch, modest in appearance, is being framed as the moment when engineering discipline, industrial capacity, and strategic intent converge into a single, testable reality.

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"Northrop Grumman Promontory Facility
Prototype Silo Construction"