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This was likely also a political message to hostile nuclear powers.
Yes, we still have nukes, and we are just as good at hitting targets with them as we are with conventional arms in Iran right now.
Glory Trip 254. Routine verification of U.S. Strategic Deterence. Not news.
Problem is we don’t manufacture Minuteman III missiles any more. Those are the Land based ones. Most our focus is on Sub lunched missiles and we still make those.
Land based missiles don’t move, Submarines do.
“Doomsday”. Sure, okay. Drama major? Like we have not had those for nearly 80 years.
This launches are a normal thing. I remember seeing such back in the late 70’s. I was flying into LAX when I saw the missile smoke trail. Figured it was a test. That was confirmed a few days later.
Was this test and launch approved by the Karens in the Kalifornia Koastal Kommission?
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Damn drama queens. They test these things fairly regularly.
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Mysterious sonic booms are a regular occurrence in Southern California.
We do these missile tests EVERY year and have been doing them every year since the Minute Man was first deployed. I worked 5 of these tests at Kwajalein in the 90s. This is no big deal, and not a particular message to anyone.
Doomsday? WTF? 20 times Hiroshima (20kt) is 400kt. Less than half a megaton. Who writes this drivel?
Why not “Doomsday missile launched on the Day of the Blood Moon”? My hyperbole detector only hit 8 on the original headline.