Saturday, March 9, 2019

The Pentagon Wants The Next Generation Of Nuclear Missiles To Be Developed Quickly

An unarmed U.S. Air Force Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test May 3, 2017, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Brosam)

FOX News/Warrior Maven: Air Force fast-tracks new nuclear missiles

The Air Force is building a new generation of nuclear-armed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) using cutting edge "digital engineering" methods intended to fast-track development of the new weapons system and fire off initial prototypes as soon as next year.

Digital engineering, using advanced computer programming, design work and engineering software enables Air Force developers to analyze a wide range of realistic weapons designs without having to build them all. Naturally, this streamlines weapons development and potentially circumvents some lengthy or more cumbersome elements of the traditional acquisition process - to bring powerful new high tech weapons to the force on a faster timeframe.

“With digital engineering, we can look at 10 to 20 designs,” William Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, told an audience recently at an Air Force Association Symposium.

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WNU Editor: Modernizing America's nuclear arsenal is not going to be cheap .... It Will Cost The U.S. $1 Trillion To Upgrade It's Nuclear Triad (April 20, 2017).

1 comment:

Joe blowes said...

We the people are fools 4 not protesing this kind of madness