Air Force to have operational new nuclear-armed ICBM by late 2020s

Air Force to have operational new nuclear-armed ICBM by late 2020s



The Air Force plans to fire off new prototype ICBMs in the early 2020s as part of a long-range plan to engineer and deploy next-generation nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles by the late 2020s – by building weapons with improved range, durability, targeting technology and overall lethality, service officials said.