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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|| [11129 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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