*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Air Force is asking Congress to pass legislation to restrict further construction of towering wind turbines that have edged ...

Scenes from inside a U.S. Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Silo (Minuteman III ICBM) and the Launch Control Room.

The Air Force hoped to reuse existing silos for Minuteman III nuclear missiles for the upcoming Sentinel program, but has concluded it will have to dig new silos. (A1C Braydon Williams/Air Force) The ...

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test May 21, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, before flying 4,200 miles to a test center in ...

Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a revamped weapons modernization effort slated to ...

The US Air Force launched a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear warhead anywhere on Earth Wednesday morning — as part of a regular test of the ...

An unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 1 a.m. Wednesday, from Vandenberg Space Force Base. ICBM test launches demonstrate the readiness, ...

Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a revamped weapons modernization effort slated to ...

Way out in the Kansas prairie, 140 feet below ground, a concrete-lined relic of Cold War annihilation has received a literal — and metaphorical — coat of “fresh paint throughout.” It’s not being ...

CACTUS FLATS | Eric Leonard, superintendent of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site near Wall, said the most popular question he hears from visitors is some variation of this: “We don’t have ...

In the middle of the 20th century, two missileers stood guard, hidden in plain sight as a part of the Cold War against the USSR. Minutes east of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, visitors can ...