Air Force, Navy To Pursue Joint Nuclear Warhead Life Extension Programs

摘要

The two military services responsible for the Defense Department's nuclear arsenal plan to jointly develop life-extension programs for their intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missile warheads, according to a senior Air Force official. The Air Force and Navy together maintain DOD's nuclear triad ~ the Air Force through its ICBM and bomber aircraft forces, and the Navy with its nuclear-capable submarines — and the two nuclear warheads that arm those weapons are both in need of modernization.