> "We can't do it at all. ... That thing is so old that, in some cases, the drawings don't exist anymore [to guide upgrades]," > The Air Force has awarded Nort

> "We can't do it at all. ... That thing is so old that, in some cases, the drawings don't exist anymore [to guide upgrades]," > The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 billion contract to engineer and manufacture its next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile. The ironic thing is that they just need to bring back the LGM-118 Peacekeeper that was decommissioned for purposes of treaty compliance twenty years ago. Unlike the drawings for the Minuteman III, it should not be all that difficult to make a Peacekeeper derivative: today Northrup Grumman makes the Minotaur IV, which is a derivative of... the Peacekeeper. [0] It's a pity geopolitics is in such a state that the countries of the world cannot simply agree to stop having weapons like this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV