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US to test hypersonic nuclear missile TONIGHT just hours after election polls close - amid growing WWIII fears
Daily Mail ^ | 11/05/24 | Stacy Liberatore

Posted on 11/05/2024 4:53:20 PM PST by Libloather

The US military is set to conduct a test launch of a hypersonic nuclear missile hours after polls close on Election Day.

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is scheduled to blast off between 11:01pm and 5:01am PT from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.

**SNIP**

But military officials noted that the 'test is routine and was scheduled years in advance.'

They said the purpose of the test was to show the 'readiness of nuclear US forces' and provide 'confidence in the nation's nuclear deterrence' amid fears of the growing threat of the outbreak of World War III.

The exercise will see the ICBM travel 4,200 miles from the base to Kwajalein Atoll, a small island in the North Pacific, which will take about 22 minutes.

The weapon can reach speeds over 15,000 miles per hour, allowing it to hit any target worldwide in just 30 minutes after launch.

Moscow sits about 5,900 miles from California, while Beijing is about 6,000 miles away - the two nations deemed a threat to the US.

ICBM is one of two currently used by America - the other is submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) that are deployed from underwater submarines.

However, the US's Titan topped speeds of 16,000mph when it was used from 1963 through 1987.

Titan was capable of traveling to a target more than 6,000 miles away in less than 30 minutes.

But the missile was phased out to make way for more advanced systems such as the MX Peacekeeper that had a similar speed and distance.

ICBM is a vital component of the US military's nuclear forces, capable of delivering a nuclear payload to targets around the world, but is scheduled to be phased out by 2029 and replaced with the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2029; atoll; election; hypersonic; icbm; icbms; kwajalein; kwajaleinatoll; launch; minuteman; missile; missilelaunch; sentinel; wwiii
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Brandon goin' out with a bang?
1 posted on 11/05/2024 4:53:20 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Quick get WW3 started before Trump.


2 posted on 11/05/2024 4:54:47 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Libloather

What could go wrong


3 posted on 11/05/2024 4:55:36 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006ttsee)
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To: Libloather

Jill Biden asserting her power... Sleepy Joe is sucking his thumb in a corner tonight.


4 posted on 11/05/2024 4:56:11 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Libloather

I wouldn’t doubt it all, Brandon and the Rats are vindictive bastards “Look, Trump started WW3!!!”


5 posted on 11/05/2024 4:59:02 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: jerod

“..Sleepy Joe is sucking his thumb in a corner tonight...”

While wearing a big red MAGA hat and smiling.......


6 posted on 11/05/2024 4:59:53 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Libloather

What click bait - ICBMs have always been “hypersonic” at some point in descent. Real US air launched hypersonic missiles are still in the prototype stage.


7 posted on 11/05/2024 5:00:26 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Libloather

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Not really what is meant by “hypersonic missile”.


8 posted on 11/05/2024 5:00:52 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Libloather

We have to correct the narrative here. The term Hypersonic Missile is being used to drum up fear like this missile is something new and more scary.

The term Hypersonic Missile has been coined in just the last few years to refer to very advanced weapons like scramjet missiles that can travel and steer at the upper edges of the atmosphere at absurdly high speeds making them able to move fast and change directions on the way to a target.

A Minuteman is more properly called an old school intercontinental ballistic missile.

It’s important that we use correct terms and don’t lead people to think the test is something that it isn’t.

Start calling everything the “Hypersonic” buzzword and we won’t have any idea what kind of missile was used.


9 posted on 11/05/2024 5:01:38 PM PST by Advil000
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To: Libloather

Can we test it on the Satanic EU?


10 posted on 11/05/2024 5:02:13 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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[Quick get WW3 started before PRESIDENT Trump 47.]

Probably a long-scheduled test, but with that Democrat clown Joe Biden, nothing would surprise me anymore

Seems like almost EVERYTHING with Biden is ... just not right ... can't imagine what Joe is like off-camera


11 posted on 11/05/2024 5:04:24 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

Daily Mail did a real bad job on this “report”...reputation goes down to murky levels.


12 posted on 11/05/2024 5:05:59 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

𝘊𝘒𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘡𝘦𝘴𝘡 π˜ͺ𝘡 𝘰𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘒𝘡𝘒𝘯π˜ͺ𝘀 𝘌𝘜?

Wait a couple of months, then launch it towards Davos.


13 posted on 11/05/2024 5:08:26 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Libloather

Great.


14 posted on 11/05/2024 5:12:19 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Libloather
Idiot headline. The Minuteman III is an ICBM. They were and are not classified as "hypersonic missiles" in the contemporary sense although the RVs have always been hypersonic.

We have had them since the Cuban missile crisis and tested them continuously throughout the years. I own 9 years of that as a maintainer and part of the launch team at Vandenberg..

15 posted on 11/05/2024 5:12:35 PM PST by pfflier
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But military officials noted that the 'test is routine and was scheduled years in advance.'

And even years in advance, they knew that this would be an election night.

And they could have canceled it if they chose, but they probably waited to see who was running and how the results were coming in.

16 posted on 11/05/2024 5:12:51 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, β€œSurely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Libloather

And somehow it will go off course and end up landing on Mar-a-lago. Wouldn’t put it past the bastards.


17 posted on 11/05/2024 5:41:25 PM PST by mass55th (β€œCourage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Libloather

Plain old ICBMs have now been re-christened “hypersonic missiles”?


18 posted on 11/05/2024 5:55:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (β€œPresident Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America”)
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To: Libloather
But military officials noted that the 'test is routine and was scheduled years in advance

Election day is known years in advance too... .

19 posted on 11/05/2024 6:01:42 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Libloather

Did the California Coastal Commission ok this launch?


20 posted on 11/05/2024 6:03:40 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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