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2023-02-11 Science & Technology
Now Uncle Sam flexes his muscles: US fires Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with re-entry vehicle from California into the Pacific Ocean - after Chinese spy balloon flew over Montana's 'nuclear doomsday' base
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A little late to the party.
  • The unarmed missile was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara at 11.01pm on Thursday

  • Officials said the test launch was 'not the result of current world events'

  • But it comes amid a diplomatic crisis with China after a Beijing spy balloon was shot down after flying over a sensitive nuclear missile base in Montana
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Who does Brandon think he is, Kim Jung-un?
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-11 07:40||   2023-02-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 ...The good news is that we do live launches (with instruments in place of warheads, of course) on a regularly scheduled and notified basis. The bad news is that I think this one was postponed for quite some time because we didn't want to ruffle anyone's bloomers.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-02-11 07:49||   2023-02-11 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 *Shrug* It's our big test range with all the ground instrumentation.
Posted by magpie 2023-02-11 10:09||   2023-02-11 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 this one was postponed for quite some time because

The Russian naval observers were focused elsewhere?
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 12:59||   2023-02-11 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 They put on quite a show off the southern California coast...fun to watch except for the first time I saw one and didn't know what it was.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-11 13:50||   2023-02-11 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 😁 for #1
Posted by Dron66046 2023-02-11 13:55||   2023-02-11 13:55|| Front Page Top

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