The U.S.'s Minuteman nuclear missiles were only supposed to last 10 years—now, they’ve defended the U.S. for more than 50. WSJ explains the logistical challenges of replacing them. WSJ ...

It is now convincingly clear that the Air Force has developed just such a missile: the Minuteman. Last week, seconds after its engines spouted orange flame, a Minuteman rose out of the inferno of ...

responsible for overseeing 400 nuclear GM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota By Jared Keller Posted on Oct 23, 2019 The Air Force is ...

The "L" in LGM is the Department of Defense designation for silo-launched; "G" means surface attack; "M" stands for guided missile, the 30 stands for the Minuteman series of missile and the G ...

Only one U.S. missile—a Polaris—has ever been fired with an atomic war head aboard. Minuteman, says General Power, “has never been operationally tested all the way through from stockpile to ...

For the past 37 years the Transporter Erector (TE) has been a fundamental piece of equipment for operational readiness of the ...

The base says the replacement system will allow for smoother operations in transporting the missiles at operational wings.

The United States military test-launched an unarmed, but nuclear-capable, intercontinental ballistic missile from California over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday. The Minuteman III ICBM was fired at ...