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Air Force Global Strike Command Tests Minuteman III Missile With Launch From Vandenberg Air Force Base
October 02, 2019
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, Lousiana, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:

A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen from the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at 1:13 a.m. PST Oct. 2, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

The test demonstrates that the United States' nuclear deterrent is robust, flexible, re . . .

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