Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) - Minuteman III Replacement Program AFNWC VIdeo (29 Mar 21)

Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, or GBSD, is the next generation ICBM under development. A Megaproject, equivalent to 15 Defense Department programs in scope, design, development, certification and deployment…it will recapitalize or modernize 400 missiles, 450 silos, more than 600 facilities across almost 40,000 square miles of US territory, over 6 states, 3 operational wings and a test location. (Video By Staff Sergeant Franklin Harris)
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[@Rabbitflyer5]

Best part of this is the existence of an ICBM launch web app 🤣 (4:27)

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

I get the hopefully sarcasm, but not a web app. Cameo Enterprise Architecture is based on the MagicDraw modeling platform. So it holds the diagramming, collaboration, persistence and documentation capabilities while allowing more customization.

[@rycriswell2326]

Thank you USA for keeping us and our ideals safe.

[@Mr_Pat]

Holy shit great information I used to work at a lunch facility I was the facility manager out of Fe Warren Air Force Base Cheyenne Wyoming worked in the missile fields in Nebraska

[@wingman4668]

i got a QUESTION. is it true y'all rally know a hell of a lot more then regular civilians do?

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

@@wingman4668 More than regular civilians regarding what, exactly? There are college-aged men and women that hold jobs as launch controllers and do things like their college homework while waiting on the launch orders that hopefully will never come. They have training in their particular position, but it's not really a free-for-all, including with management. Cheyenne has a lot going on with various positions and communications, of course, being built on springs in a mountain to withstand a nuclear strike. The same is true for Air Force bases like Groom Lake Air Force Flight Test Center (aka "Area 51" which was actually the name of Groom Lake on an old, outdated land map decades ago). They are compartmentalized, which means that each group works on whatever craft and they don't get to see what others are working on (only the team doing testing can be outside, basically). If there is anyone on base who knows most of what is going on or all projects being worked on at once, it would be the installation commander. Employers generally prefer to hire people who are already cleared to access classified information at the level needed for a given job or contract, because security clearances can take up to a year or more to obtain. Most employers look for candidates who hold an active Department of Defense collateral clearance. Or they might also look for those with TS/SCI-cleared, which is Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information. Some also want CI , which is counterintelligence. Others also want FSP, which is full-scope polygraph aka expanded scope screening, usually just called ESS. So their criminal history is checked, relatives, acquaintances, citizenship, etc. It's a lot of crap and not fun, but the positive side is that they do pay very well.

[@scottnj2503]

I very much enjoyed this video. I've been out of the play for a few decades. Please forgive this comment as no desire to come off as a troll. I maintained USN aircraft for 9 years, eventually becoming Leading PO and QA inspector in the Avionics shop for a national security asset squadron. I and my techs didn't have to worry about dropping heavy tools down a 100ft hole. Reminding the Damascus incident. That said, were I to see one of my techs keeping his/her tool kit in such disarray...That tech would hear about it.

[@merlin6625]

The Sentinel 🚀🚀🚀

[@BeechSportBill]

WOW…. BUT need to build back to 1,000

[@user-km5kj8xh1x]

too busy trying to follow treaties that Russia doesn't respect.

[@sebrofc]

Completely agree and they need to stack as many MIRVs on top of each one as technically possible. Why reduce arms when every other power is doing the exact opposite. It's not a deterrent if you bring have a squirt gun and everyone else has an A10.

[@ronaldjerrimmy4659]

Operator friendly ,nonething but the finest ass kicking machinery in the planet let's hope the govt will be just as cool

[@phil20_20]

Everyone keeps showing the MX nose cone for the Minuteman. 😅 I think the rats have been chewing on the wires down there. Time to replace them. Not the rats,...

[@ignaciomenendez8672]

I wonder how and why, Boeing lost on this follow on ICBM, since they were the experienced contractor for Minuteman 1, 2, and 3 ?

[@jmd1743]

It's because their company went to crap after they absorbed the executive suite of McDonnell Douglas. Basically their engineer culture was replaced with a bean counter culture of another corporation. Boeing is finished, their retired or retiring workers will sink the company with costs. The only hope the country has long term is to invest serious bucks on longevity treatments, but not to live forever but double or triple the life span while eradicating disorders such as dementia & frail bones. Instead of running out to college to start a degree when you're 20 you would do it in your 40s, and focus your young adult years on raising a family before your wife begins to menopause. Plenty of workers are screwed because technology has changed such as coal miners being wiped out by cheap natural gas. It's either longevity treatments and a brand new & fresh career, or you'll end up as a Walmart greeter because your retirement plans are forever messed up and you're too old restart from scratch with a 401k.

[@TheJessfletcher17]

They can barely build planes

[@Tunechi65]

Just got a job as a design engineer on this project. Glad boeing didn't win it lol.

[@lukestrawwalker]

LOL:) Have you seen Starliner and SLS?? Both projects are a train wreck. 'Nuf said... LOL:) OL J R :)

[@jmd1743]

@@lukestrawwalker They're wrecks because the intention of those programs is to give money to Senator's districts, a working rocket is just a bonus.

[@8731Cordova]

💯👍👍

[@brunopriore3633]

Después del icbm atlas viene el icbm thor

[@michaelanderson3096]

These minute man 3 missiles should be mobile.

[@JustMe007]

What's that in SLC, UT?

[@bammab977]

Equal to what 15 programs?

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

3:23 I'll bet you guys lost all of your 10mm sockets, too. That particular size seems cursed to getting lost worldwide.

[@patatebanine4278]

Minuteman 3 are here too long. It was supposed to be remplace 10 years earlier

[@flatcapcaferacer]

I have to say I'm a little disappointed that we and others continue to develop more ICBMs systems. We all need to heading the other way in deployment of any nuclear delivery systems. Some will rightly say these weapons and the MUTAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION (Mad) doctrine have prevented WWIII . Others will also argue that smaller wars from Korea on to today's war in Ukraine were not prevented by having nuclear weapons. How many smaller nuclear countries will work to get nuclear weapons because they see the paralysis that is caused when a nuclear power uses coercion to prevent smaller countries from being overrun? WWIII fought with conventional weapons would be terrible but WWIII fought with nuclear weapons is beyond terrible.

[@dja3606]

Nuclear weapons prevent invasion of nuclear powers but do not prevent invasion of non nuclear powers.

[@SocialistDistancing]

I wish people would pick up their garbage and stop being wasteful. But that's a fantasy, just like your fantasy of nuclear weapons going away. If you think that every country that hated America wouldn't try to nuke it if they could, then you don't understand humans. After all, they can't be trusted to pick up their own garbage.

[@jimbrown9885]

Well said. ...Straight out of the "Communist 45-Point Plan to Destroy America." Dupe the American public into thinking disarming is a good idea.

[@flatcapcaferacer]

@@jimbrown9885 I am a retired Nuclear Launch Officer and instructor in two nuclear weapon systems (Minuteman II and the Ground Launched Cruise Missile), I wrote nuclear battle plans,. In addition I worked as Intermediate Nuclear Force and Start as a Treaty officer. I've been the witness to the destruction of Russian Bear bombers. My dad served as Marine in WWII and my brother recently passed away from agent orange he got in Vietnam. I think I'm entitled to my opinion without being called a communist.

[@hydra70]

How do you get rid of nuclear weapons when Russia has clearly signaled that they have zero interest in nuclear reduction, let alone disarmament? We can sit here all day wishing that nukes didn't exist, but what is the actual, viable pathway towards disarmament?

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

LET'S MOVE IN THE OTHER DIRECTION.... NO MORE WARS AND NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS... GESARA

[@ejharbet6390]

As long as man governs man those who destroy their weapons become slaves for those who didn't

[@johngdoty]

Nice film, but kind of a management buzzword fest.

[@SasquatchAngry]

It's totally reckless and STUPID to have weapons like these. They could destroy the entire earth with this carelessness.

[@ejharbet6390]

Can't close the box once it's open. Especially when lunatics have them. Pray to whoever you pray to that can save I us from each other

[@jamesmolesson9991]

The Exxon Valdez and the BP Deepwater Horizon, just to name a few, are well on their way to destroying our earth... there have been 1000's of these oil spills and other disasters that will destroy our world. We should focus on what is, not what could be....

[@jasonstevenson110]

Yes, I am sure the likes of Putin, Xi and Kim are keeping your sentiment in mind.

[@ericalover3025]

GBSD is garbage.Bring back peacekeeper.

[@christopherburke7025]

We already have new ICBMs that are 2 generations ahead of Minutemen 3 and tactical nukes that have stealth technology oops guess that's not for public consumption

[@JustMe007]

Shall we play a game?