{"id":41919,"date":"2025-05-06T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41919"},"modified":"2025-05-06T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:13:18","slug":"us-air-force-the-united-states-will-continue-to-modernize-its-nuclear-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41919","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force: The United States will continue to modernize its nuclear forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Acting U.S. Air Force Secretary Gary Ashworth said the United States will continue to modernize its nuclear forces, including developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He said at a U.S. congressional hearing: &#8220;Defending the motherland is the top priority of the U.S. Air Force. We will achieve this goal by continuing to modernize our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250406\/1064868019.html\">nuclear forces<\/a>&nbsp;, especially through the Sentinel project, the B-21 (stealth bomber &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Note) project and the Long Range Standoff (LRSO, Long Range Weapon System &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Note) project, as well as the command, control and communication systems that support nuclear forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Previously, the Pentagon admitted that the cost of the Sentinel project was 81% higher than the initial assessment, reaching $141 billion. The main reason was attributed to the construction of ground infrastructure: building silos, laying cables, and building new facilities. This also affected its service time &#8211; it is now beyond the previously planned time frame of 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250507\/1065354890.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting U.S. Air Force Secretary Gary Ashworth said the United States will continue to modernize its nuclear forces, including developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sentinel. He said at a U.S. congressional hearing: &#8220;Defending the motherland is the top priority of the U.S. Air Force. We will achieve this goal by continuing to modernize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[33193,24438],"class_list":["post-41919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-nuclear-forces","tag-us-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41921,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions\/41921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}