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Replacing Minuteman Missiles Will cost the United States $61 Billion
Teste operacional do LGM-30G Minuteman
United States Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriela Ramos
7/3/2021
The Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), the United States Air Force's new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), is to be tested in 2023, and if it passes the tests, Washington will purchase 400 missiles to replace the old Minutemans. The first ICBMs are expected to be delivered by 2036.
The projectiles are being developed by Northrop Grumman, which is currently engaged in the “critical design review” of the missile subsystems.
The project will cost $61 billion over ten years as planned, but budget increases or delays may occur.
ICBM was developed from digital engineering, which allows computers to find optimized configurations for the system, and that these configurations (and alternative configurations) are tested virtually, being able to analyze which one offers the best performance.
The United States has about 400 units of the LGM-30G Minuteman missiles, in operation since 1962. The old Minuteman will be replaced by the new projectiles, if they do well in the tests.
LGM-30G Minuteman
Valder137, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Gabriela Ramos
Gabriela is the latest addition to the editorial team of our website, having provided us with her solid background in editing, publishing and photography, and her interest and training in aviation history and historiography. His good taste and common sense and great cleverness and sagacity in the selection of themes and materials greatly enriched our vocabulary and narrative style. Gabriela brought unusual predicates and came to stay, helping to point the way of success of our portal.
   
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