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Hundreds of Sentinel nuclear missile silos could be built by US on private lands
The Air Force’s top nuclear planner said that building hundreds of new missile silos for the Sentinel program could save both time and money.
The Air Force’s top nuclear weapons planner said Wednesday that building hundreds of new missile silos for the LGM-35A Sentinel program could save both time and money, but warned that not all of the new facilities may fit on federal land, Breaking Defense reported. Lt. Gen. Andrew Gebara, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration, said during a Mitchell Institute forum that the service’s shift toward fresh silos would accelerate deployment of the beleaguered intercontinental ballistic missile program. During a public town hall on Tuesday at Minot, Maj. Gen Colin Connor, director of ICBM modernization, said the transition to Sentinel would allow the Air Force to keep some Minuteman IIIs operational longer by salvaging spare parts from retired missiles.
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