Per standard procedure, the US notified the Russian government and other countries ahead of the launch, the Air Force said. The military had shipped a “randomly selected” Minuteman III from an ...

The crews can only launch missiles based on "authenticated orders from the president of the United States using complex, ...

Col. Dustin Harmon, commander of the 377th Test and Evaluation Group, oversees the tests of unarmed Minuteman III missiles. Those launches stay around the same number every year. "I expect to keep ...

Fully qualified airborne missile combat crews aboard airborne launch control center aircraft would execute the president's orders. The Minuteman weapon system was conceived in the late 1950s and ...

TASS/. The US Air Force Global Strike Command has conducted a test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ...

“An airborne launch validates the survivability of our ICBMs [intercontinental ballistic missiles], which serve as the strategic backstop of our nation’s defense and defense of allies and partners.” ...

Earlier, the command of the US Space Force Vandenberg base (California) said a test launch of a Minuteman III ICBM took place at 11:01 p.m. PST on November 5 (7:01 a.m. Moscow time on November 6).