For years, India's missile programme was shaped by one reality that its main security challenges came from adversaries closer to its own borders, namely Pakistan and China. Most Indian ballistic ...

A U.S. airman conducts training on a Payload Transporter Replacement at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, May 15, 2025. (A1C Olya Houtsma/U.S. Space Force) As America’s Minuteman III ...

UPDATE (3:30 a.m.) — According to base officials, Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a successful test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile at 11:01 p.m. from ...

DENVER—The US Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile is on track for its first test flight next year, military officials reaffirmed this week. But no one is ready to say when ...

AURORA, Colorado—The Pentagon won’t have new cost estimates for the way-over-budget Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program until year’s end, officials said, though they expressed optimism ...

The new LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile being developed for the U.S. Air Force is on track with initial capability tests to allow for a decision by the end of the year on whether ...

The Air Force’s new helicopter, procured to secure land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles at U.S. bases, made its operational debut in a six-hour mission last week, the Air Force said. Two ...

An unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 1:35 a.m, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. ICBM systems require regular testing to verify ...

With a system like the Yars in its arsenal, the Russians can guarantee that NATO thinks carefully about its actions before pushing too hard against the Kremlin. Russia’s Yars intercontinental ...

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its ...

The Air Force has developed planning documents for the transition from Minuteman III to Sentinel but has not developed a risk management plan. The transition was planned to begin in fiscal year 2025, ...

The Pentagon is set to shift funds from the US's Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program to refit a jet gifted to the US and President Donald Trump by Qatar. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink ...