Question. How many new ones we building?
“Question. How many new ones we building?”
None. The Minuteman III Missiles (MM3) introduced in 1970 are planned to remain in service into the year 2030. The U.S. Air Force has made proposals to modernize some of the MM3 features and systems, but is still seeking appropriations from the U.S. Congress, particularly the Democrat controlled Senate, in order to do so. Instead, the Obama Administration has been focused on unilaterally retiring U.S. nuclear weapons systems.
Proposals to replace the minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile systems with an all new ICBM have been rejected so far, because the projected cost of replacing the Minuteman III ICBM force with a new ICBM is expected to b three times the cost of modernizing the existing Minuteman III ICBM force.