ICBM MODERNIZATION: Availability Problems and Flight Test Delays in Peacekeeper Program

Abstract

The original Peacekeeper missile plan was based on the need to deploy Peacekeepers in silos and the need for an operational test and evaluation flight test program scheduled to start in early 1987. However, the operational test and evaluation program has been changed to make sufficient missiles available to meet the scheduled full operational capability milestone for the Peacekeeper in Minuteman silo program. The Air Force has not yet begun its operational test and evaluation program, which is designed to confirm that the Peacekeeper weapon system will work in its intended environment. Air Force officials believe that developmental flight testing has demonstrated that the system will work as intended.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 09, 1989
Accession Number
AD1152651

Entities

People

  • David Hubbell
  • Harry Finley
  • James Dinwiddie
  • John Klotz
  • Michael Decastro
  • Paul Jones
  • Steven Kuhta

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Congress
  • Flight Testing
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Inventory
  • Measurement
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design