[TigerLikesRooster]

According to this news site(probably liberal,) the launch happened without advance notice to public.

US Launches Minuteman III Missile Test in Cloud of Secrecy

Another publication reports that this time they did not announce where the missile landed, either.

Air Force Launches First ICBM Test of the Year in Lead Up to Talks Between US and North Korea

[TigerLikesRooster]

Is Washington trying to send a message to N. Korea with the manner this test launch was conducted: no advance notice and secrecy about where it landed?

[publius911]

Only idiots would expect that these types of tests and their detailed data would be, or should be, available to the public, and thus also to those known to be enemies.

When Iran is finally nuked, it should come as a total surprise.

[OldMissileer]

This was a routine Follow On Test & Evaluation (FOT&E, commonly called “Foot”) shot. It had been delayed for certain reasons so notification was shorter than normal. Also, they are all targeted at the test rage at the Kwajalein Atoll. Kwajalein has all the special radars and sensors to score the accuracy of the Re-entry Vehicle.

[Mariner]

Both the Minuteman III and the Trident D5 have perfect records.

Our adversaries are well aware of that.

The US can put 1500, 100KT or bigger, warheads on target...within 100 meters CEP...in 40 minutes from the “GO” message.

And over 99% reliability.

To boot, our MEECN network is redundant in dozens of ways and you cannot prevent the message from arriving.

China on the other hand has only about 50 warheads that can reach us.

And Russia....estimates are 50% reliability on the same number of warheads. But their speed to launch and C3 are far inferior.

Only the US has reliable CounterForce.

[MtnClimber]

A wakeup call to all of the bad actors in the world.

[xp38]

One of the nuclear triad. The other two are submarine launched missiles and the bomber force.