The U.S. Air Force’s plan to replace the LGM-30G intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a new missile has run into issues at the Pentagon as the Department of Defense thinks the flying branch had underestimated the cost of developing the new weapon by billions of dollars.
By A1C Yvonne Morales [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
An anonymous official said there is a substantial gap between the cost estimate done by the air force and the office of independent cost assessment.
The uncertainty over costs stems from the fact that the U.S. has not built new ICBMs, which are designed to carry nuclear warheads, for decades, Bloomberg says.