DOD Official: Global Threats Prompt SLCM-N Reversal

Trident missile test

The USS Maine test-fires an unarmed Trident II missile. The Navy is developing a new lower-yield submarine launched cruise missile.

Credit: U.S. Navy
Pentagon civilian leaders have reversed course on support for a submarine-launched, low-yield nuclear missile and are looking at other ways to bolster launcher capacity and deployments of warheads as global threats have increased, a top official says. The Biden administration, since its 2022 Nuclear...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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