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Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. military successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
An unarmed Minuteman III missile has been launched from a US Air Force base in California to ensure its “effectiveness, readiness and accuracy,” and demonstrate “national nuclear capabilities,” according to the US military. The ICBM flew over 4,000 miles, landing near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
In a statement issued by the Air Force, the recent test “ensures” the U.S. is able to maintain a “strong, credible nuclear deterrent” as a major part of national security.”
The purpose of the test is to “verify the status of our national nuclear force and to demonstrate our national nuclear capabilities,” Colonel John Moss, 30th Space Wing commander, said in a statement.
The Minuteman ICBM system has been in service for 60 years, and through upgrades and improvements, this weapons system continues to meet the needs of the U.S. military.
The U.S. Air Force has 450 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles in underground silos across three bases in Wyoming, North Dakota and Montana. This number will be reduced to 400 in the coming years, according to a senior U.S. military official. But it’s still more than enough to wipe out enemies all at once from the face of the earth such as North Korea, Russia, and China.
The Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRV) permits each missile to carry multiple warheads, and direct each one at a separate target.
A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is a ballistic missile payload containing several thermonuclear warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit one of a group of targets. One MIRV-capable missile can deliver several nuclear warheads to separate targets at once.
In a Minuteman test, a so-called re-entry vehicle travels more than 4,000 miles downrange to a target at Kwajalein Atoll near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The launch comes amid escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula over the North’s attempt to develop an ICBM capable of striking targets in the continental U.S. with a nuclear warhead.
Aside from the Minuteman III, the U.S. military also maintains a fleet of long range B-2 and B-52 bombers capable of delivering nuclear weapons as well as a fleet of ballistic missile submarines like the terrifying USS Virginia. Air Force fighter jets can carry smaller tactical nuclear weapons as well.
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