The Air Force's next-generation nuclear missile program has blown its budget and hit serious delays. Here's how things went sideways.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force will use unspent funds from a missile program to refurbish Trump's new jet. The Boeing 747 was gifted by the ...

The Air Force hoped to reuse existing silos for Minuteman III nuclear missiles for the upcoming Sentinel program, but has concluded it will have to dig new silos. (A1C Braydon Williams/Air Force) The ...

Key Points and Summary on the LGM-35A - The LGM-35A Sentinel program, intended to modernize the land-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, is a "nightmare" of mismanagement and cost overruns. -The ...

The Air Force is using money previously given to its Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program to convert a Qatari luxury jet into an Air Force One. “There were dollars that were removed ...

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...

The Air Force will have to dig entirely new nuclear missile silos for the LGM-35A Sentinel, creating another complication for a troubled program that is already facing future cost and schedule ...