The US Air Force conducted a missile test launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, yesterday (August 19), forty-five years to the day since the US first put its first Minuteman III missiles on alert.
According to the Airforce Global Strike Command the launch was “part of the system’s operational test and evaluation program, which provides valuable data to evaluators and validates the reliability of the ICBM fleet.”
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