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Airmen from Minot and Vandenberg Air Force bases conducted an operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III missile. Today’s test launch used an intercontinental ballistic missile pulled randomly from a silo on Minot, which was then transported and reassembled at Vandenberg, and launched by crew members from 91st Missile Wing. The ICBM was equipped with a test reentry vehicle, and traveled approximately four thousand two hundred miles to a test range near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. ICBM test launches verify the accuracy and reliability of the weapon system, providing valuable data to ensure a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.
| Date Taken: | 02.08.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 02.09.2017 04:33 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 508918 |
| VIRIN: | 170208-F-JZ567-004 |
| Filename: | DOD_104062330 |
| Length: | 00:00:45 |
| Location: | CA, US |
| Downloads: | 136 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 136 |
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