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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
2023-02-11
[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

#6  😁 for #1
Posted by: Dron66046   2023-02-11 13:55  

#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  

#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  

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

#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  

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

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