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. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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