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US test-fires ICBM traveling 4,000 miles to South Pacific
Fox News ^ | April 26, 2017

Posted on 04/26/2017 8:36:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

US test-fires ICBM traveling 4,000 miles to South Pacific

Published April 26, 2017 Fox News

The U.S. Air Force test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile which traveled over 4,000 miles before splashing down in the South Pacific after launching early Wednesday from a base in California.

The nuclear-capable missile was unarmed, according to the Air Force, and comes amid increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The Minuteman III missile blasted off at 12:03 a.m. Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: minuteman3; nkorea
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To: Popman
If you go to the Vandenberg AFB launch site, they pretty much tell the world months in advance of these launches. http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm

FOT&E (Fleetwide Operational Testing and Evaluation) missile launches are a routine part of Minuteman operations. Typically we test two or so missiles a year randomly selected from the 450 remaining (soon to be 400) Minuteman IIIs on alert.

The warheads are removed obviously and replaces with an instrumented reentry vehicle.

21 posted on 04/26/2017 9:43:02 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Dog
All the images I found of the sub- USS Michigan, in port at Busan, had the equipment you speak of, but the views didn't do justice to what one was seeing, or the images opened up to large to post. That being said, here's a good view of the spec-ops "transportation" atop the USS Michigan, taken somewhere other than in the port of Busan. Note: the sub is 560' in length, with a crew of 165.


22 posted on 04/26/2017 9:51:06 AM PDT by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass. / Count your blessings!)
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To: Delmarksman
Ummm, don’t lean on the Tripod newb...

LOL - one of the biggest challenges for a new FA lieutenant (back in the day)at Fort Sill was learning how to set up the aiming circle and use the firing point data to lay the battery to ensure the rounds went in the impact area instead of Medicine Park. Wonder if they still teach that, given the GPS whiz-bang technology on board the M109-series? Guess they still need it for the towed pieces.

23 posted on 04/26/2017 9:56:12 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

I thought it was a GAF View Master:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAxJzwawc7g


24 posted on 04/26/2017 10:02:55 AM PDT by rey
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To: Mr. K

Not that your MSM would ever tell ya. Of course, you’d get the “breaking bulletin” on some drunken actor who got arrested.


25 posted on 04/26/2017 10:04:36 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Really want to rattle him? Fly a B-2 directly over Pyongyang. It'll be there and gone before they can react to it any other way except pissing themselves.


26 posted on 04/26/2017 10:05:06 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: COBOL2Java

“That doesn’t look like a flying Twinkie...”


27 posted on 04/26/2017 10:05:44 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Cool, an OT shot. They don’t do these as often as they did before the early 90s but they are still a scheduled operational requirement.

I witnessed one in 77 from the top of the hills overlooking the launch facility. Impressive, especially at dusk when you watch the missile start up out of the hole with flames licking the body of the missile and then the flash when it clears the hole and accelerates out to Kwajalein atoll.

Gave a good sense of what would have happened if we ever had to turn the keys and it sends a message to the hostile nations as well.


28 posted on 04/26/2017 10:09:57 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: caww
The guy on the left is holding the Kim-phone direct contact for pizza delivery.


29 posted on 04/26/2017 10:18:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: freepersup

Its called a dry dock shelter.


30 posted on 04/26/2017 10:18:21 AM PDT by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: RJS1950

Around 2001 I was standing in front of my girlfriend’s home in San Jose. I read on FR that there was going to be a Minuteman missile test out of Vandenberg, so I looked south, on a lark.

Certainly something that far away would not be visible, I thought. I was very wrong.

The enormous contrail was not only visible, but as it ascended and went through the different levels of the atmosphere it reflected different colors, so it looked like a giant rainbow.

A giant rainbow of freedom and awesomeness, that is.

I got a sense of pride at that moment that no lefty hipster will ever feel.


31 posted on 04/26/2017 10:32:13 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: Dog
Got it !


32 posted on 04/26/2017 10:37:14 AM PDT by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass. / Count your blessings!)
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To: PLMerite

That depends on whether the Norks have upgraded their AAA radars. It’s been known for almost two decades that if you datalink your radars to create a virtual Very Large Array, you actually *can* see a stealth aircraft on radar. Not well enough to get a missile lock, but enough to know there’s something up there and vector fighters to go say hello. And the B-2 is subsonic.


33 posted on 04/26/2017 11:01:37 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Fascinating post and one of the reasons I love this site. I had no idea such a thing could be done.


34 posted on 04/26/2017 11:24:37 AM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: Mr. K

HARM’s away!


35 posted on 04/26/2017 11:51:18 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: TigerLikesRooster

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??


36 posted on 04/26/2017 12:11:21 PM PDT by halfright (Deplorable in Florida)
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To: WKUHilltopper

“That doesn’t look like a flying Twinkie...”

Did you hear how mad the Norks got when some South Koreans loaded balloons with Choco-pies, the South Korean equivalent of Moon Pies, and floated them to their starving cousins north of the border? The Norks threatened to shell the spot where the balloons were launched.

Judging from Kim Jong-un’s girth, I suspect he got rid of the Choco-pies his troops captured by eating them.


37 posted on 04/26/2017 1:39:51 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: ColdOne

” I wonder how much that is costing Kim each time he does it?”

A modified version of the Reagan Doctrine, troll him the point that he depletes his entire arsenal and whatever capital they have left.

Troll him till he’s broke.


38 posted on 04/26/2017 1:50:09 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Hory sh!t! I so ronery.”


39 posted on 04/26/2017 2:14:19 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Spktyr

Isn’t that how the F-117 was downed over Bosnia? Triangulation using cell phones signals or microwave or some such I do not recall. All I know is they managed to locate it and bring it down and now all F-117’s are in an underground cemetery in Nevada or something like that.


40 posted on 04/26/2017 4:25:00 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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