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Standing Sentinel: StratCom's new nukes get a name
Washington,
April 11, 2022
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National Defense
In a decade or so, a new harbinger of atomic doom and deterrence will squat in Minuteman III missile silos in Nebraska and four other upper Midwest states. Now the next-generation ICBM has a name: Sentinel. Until last week, the Pentagon called the nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles currently in development by the moniker “Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent,” or GBSD. On Tuesday, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall announced that they will be called by the slightly less awkward name LGM-35A Sentinel. “The name Sentinel recognizes the mindset that thousands of Airmen, past and present, have brought to the deterrence mission,” Kendall said in a statement. LGM stands for Launched (from a silo) Guided Missile, and 35A is the design and serial number. |