With a new Netflix film dealing with the threat of nuclear war, take a look at the history of missile silos in north central ...

The U.S. conducts several intercontinental ballistic missile test launches each year to maintain its nuclear deterrent.

By now, the use of hard-kill active protection systems (APS) to protect vehicles on the battlefield is well known, with projectiles used to defeat fast-moving threats, like incoming anti-tank missiles ...

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 ...

Would a wall of supersonic metal be able to protect a nuclear missile silo from destruction? In the late Cold War, Soviet ...

Opponents of the next-generation ICBM often reduce its mission to that of a warhead “sponge”: That is, should an adversary attempt to disarm the US nuclear force, its primary purpose is to soak up the ...

Scrapping ICBM modernization plans would do a great deal to better reflect America’s current strategic end goals. The Department of Defense recently released a $961.6 billion proposed budget for FY ...

Northrop Grumman and the US Air Force (USAF) have successfully completed a critical design review (CDR) for the LSS.

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 ...

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 ...