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  • Air Force conducts third Sentinel static fire test

    The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne conducted a static fire test March 16, 2024, for the Stage-3 solid rocket motor of the LGM-35A Sentinel weapon system at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.

  • AFGSC conducts 13N FAST Field Tests

    AFGSC members from the Studies, Assessments, Analysis and Lessons Learned Directorate and the Data Analytics Collaboration Cell executed their first field test of the 13N Force Assessment Scheduling Tool, or FAST, at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, Aug. 15-17. Operators and support personnel

  • TOP HAND Celebrates Fifty Years of Excellence

    The Air Force TOP HAND Program celebrated fifty years of excellence last month with a reunion celebration hosted by the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg Space Force Base (SFB), California.

  • AFGSC Commander discusses mission, modernization

    Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere, Air Force Global Strike Commander, spoke to hundreds in attendance and thousands more via live stream at the 2023 Air and Space Forces Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, on Tuesday.“Integrated deterrence is enabled by credible forces that are backstopped by a safe,

  • AFGSC commander addresses SASC subcommittee

    The Air Force Global Strike Command Commander, Gen. Anthony Cotton, testified in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to members of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces April 27, focused on the budget posture for nuclear forces.Cotton emphasized to the committee that the strategic security

  • TOP HAND – the program, the Airmen, the legacy

    The TOP HAND program, a professional development program housed at the 576th Flight Test Squadron, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, was created in 1972 to provide selected missile operations officers program management experience in ICBM Test and Evaluation. Forty nine years later, Airmen

  • MINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH ABORTS PRIOR TO LAUNCH

    An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, experienced a ground abort prior to launch.The cause of the ground abort is currently under investigation, and Air Force Global Strike Command is assessing the potential to reschedule

  • Minuteman III test launch demonstrates safe, reliable deterrent

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at 11:49 p.m. Pacific Time Feb. 23 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.The test demonstrates that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is