ICBM test launches demonstrate that the U.S. ICBM fleet is ready, reliable and effective in leveraging dominance in an era of strategic competition.
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‘Today’s Minuteman III test launch is just one of the ways the Department of the Air Force demonstrates the readiness, precision, and professionalism of US nuclear forces,’ stated Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gary Ashworth.
Joshua LeRoi)] A team including Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen set off the unarmed Minuteman III missile at 1am on Wednesday from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Minuteman III missile test was ‘part of the Nation’s ongoing commitment to maintaining a credible deterrent and is not a response to current world events’, according to the United States Space Force.
