<p><a href="https://www.airforcemag.com/gbsd-finally-gets-a-name-sentinel/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gbsd-finally-gets-a-name-sentinel" target="_top" class="ke-link">https://www.airforcemag.com/gbsd-finally-gets-a-name-sentinel/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gbsd-finally-gets-a-name-sentinel</a> </p><p> </p><p>GBSD(Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent)로 불렸던 신형 ICBM 시스템의 명칭이 LGM-35A 센티넬로 명명됐네요. </p><p> </p><p>RQ-170 UAV랑 이름이 같은데, RQ-170을 개명할 계획은 없다고 합니다. </p><p> </p><p><b>GBSD Finally Gets a Name: ‘Sentinel’</b></p><p>April 5, 2022 | By <a href="https://www.airforcemag.com/person/greg-hadley/" target="_top" class="ke-link">Greg Hadley</a> and <a href="https://www.airforcemag.com/person/john-a-tirpak/" target="_top" class="ke-link">John A. Tirpak</a></p><p>The Air Force announced a name and designation for the intercontinental ballistic missile system long known as the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent: <b>LGM-35A Sentinel</b>. The name recycles one already given to one of the Air Force’s secret spy drones.</p><p>The Sentinel, being developed by Northrop Grumman, is set to replace the Minuteman III as the land leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, beginning with <a href="https://www.airforcemag.com/new-%3Ca%20href='/weapons-platforms/gbsd/'%20title='Learn%20more%20about%20the%20GBSD'%20class='inline-wp-link'%3Egbsd%3C/a%3E-will-fly-in-2023-no-margin-left-for-minuteman/%E2%80%9D%3Einitial%20operational%20capability%20in%202029%3C/a%3E%20and%20full%20operational%20capability%20by%202036.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%E2%80%9CThe%20name%20Sentinel%20recognizes%20the%20mindset%20that%20thousands%20of%20Airmen,%20past%20and%20present,%20have%20brought%20to%20the%20deterrence%20mission%E2%80%9D%20over%20decades,%20said%20Air%20Force%20Secretary%20Frank%20Kendall%20in%20an%20official%20release.%20As%20those%20Airmen%20have%20%E2%80%9Ckept%20the%20watch;%20always%20vigilant%20and%20ready,%E2%80%9D%20the%20name%20will%20%E2%80%9Cserve%20as%20a%20reminder%20for%20those%20who%20operate,%20secure,%20and%20maintain%20this%20system%20in%20the%20future%20about%20the%20discipline%20and%20responsibility%20their%20duty%20entails.%E2%80%9D%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3ESentinel%20joins%20the%20ranks%20of%20Atlas,%20Titan,%20Minuteman,%20and%20Peacekeeper%20as%20the%20land-based%20ICBM%20missiles%20that%20have%20maintained%20America%E2%80%99s%20nuclear%20deterrent%20since%20the%20early%201960s.%20Its%20nomenclature%E2%80%94LGM-35A%E2%80%94is%20a%20bit%20puzzling,%20however,%20as%20the%20Minuteman%20was%20the%20LGM-30%20and%20the%20LGM-118%20was%20the%20successor%20Peacekeeper.%20The%20Air%20Force%20could%20not%20immediately%20explain%20the%20derivation%20of%20the%20nomenclature.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EThe%20GBSD%20name%20has%20been%20%3Ca%20href=" target="_top" class="ke-link">assigned</a> to the new missile program for years now as the Air Force’s modernization efforts have wound their way through Congress and the Pentagon. In February 2021, then-Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John E. Hyten lamented the lack of an official name for the project.</p><p>“We’ve got to find a name for the GBSD,” Hyten said. “GBSD just doesn’t hack it. … Because GBSD is very hard to explain to the American people … GBSD requires me to define the term before I actually get into it, so for God’s sakes, Air Force, let’s get a name for the thing and start moving forward.”</p><p>The missile will, however, have to share the “Sentinel” moniker. The <b>Air Force named its stealthy RQ-170 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance drone</b> the Sentinel in the mid-2000s. The Sentinel, built by Lockheed Martin, was considered a key element in locating and tracking Osama bin Laden, leading to the special operations raid that killed him in Pakistan in 2011. An RQ-170 also crashed in Iran, where that government claimed to have back-engineered it and built their own version. An Air Force spokeswoman told Air Force Magazine there are no plans as yet to rename the RQ-170.</p><p>The LGM-35A will be stationed at missile bases where the Minuteman III is already emplaced—F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.; Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.; and Minot Air Force Base, N.D.</p>
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첫댓글 1967-1968년에는 ABM 시스템의 이름이 Sentinel이었는데 이 이름이 그 반대편인 ICBM에 붙었네요.
https://cafe.daum.net/NTDS/5q4/360
바이든 정권 초반에는 핵관련 예산을 코로나 대응예산으로 전환해야한다는 주장도 있었는데, SLBM-N은 예산 날라갈 것 같은데 ICBM은 워낙 중러의 신형이 발전했으니 그대로 가겠죠?