Lets make fun of Obama while he is still relevant.

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(11-28-2016, 02:58 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: The Peacekeeper was an improvement over the Minuteman III, but they may be restricted by treaty.

There is a treaty banning missiles with multiple warheads, but that provision is no longer in effect. There were 50 Peacekeepers based in fixed silos, but the last one was taken off line in 2005. The Peacekeeper warheads were moved to Minutemen, while some Peacekeeper missile components are being reused by Orbital Science Corporation for their Minotaur IV satellite launch system.

Peacekeeper was somewhat of a fiasco, not so much as the F 35, but the Pentagon tends to ask developers for systems beyond the affordable state of the art. The result is often overrun. Fewer Peacekeepers were built than planned, but the break up of the Soviet Union had something to do with this. Currently, with the various components scattered to other uses, going back to Peacekeeper is absurdly unlikely.