US Air Force conducted another test of the Minuteman III ICBM

August 2 2017 45

The US military successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, reports NBC News with reference to the representative of the Air Force.

The United States Air Force launched the Minuteman III rocket at 2: 10 local time from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is located 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles

- the report says.

US Air Force conducted another test of the Minuteman III ICBM

According to the US Air Force, the entire US Air Force Command conducted 299 missile tests. So, rocket tests are conducted to "test the effectiveness, readiness and accuracy of the combat complex." Previously reported test launches of the ICBM Minuteman III in April and May. According to the agency, this launch was the fourth test launch of the rocket this year.

Minuteman III is currently the only land-based intercontinental ballistic missile accepted into service in the United States. According to the latest data from open sources, the entire United States has 450 Minuteman III missiles, which will remain in service at least until the 2020 year.

The Minuteman III ICBMs have been in service with the US Army since 1970, at the end of 1978, their production was discontinued. The rocket is capable of hitting targets within a radius of 12 thousands of kilometers.

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Observer2014

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2 August 2017 16: 34

US Air Force conducted another test of the Minuteman III ICBM
And the dummy warheads hit the target? Or they have strange tests pass. Missiles all in some areas stop flying. Probably not interested in fake warheads hit the target or not
1. hrych
  
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  2 August 2017 17: 55
  
  4 launches per year, allegedly verified old man, bad sign. It is strange that our virtual experts admired such a large number of test launches per year; this is not an experimental and new rocket. This indicates a test failure and a forced next test.
DEPARTMENT

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2 August 2017 16: 37

ICBMs Minuteman III are in service with the U.S. Army since 1970,

The old man of course ... And the staff members stirred, apparently sensed a threat! Your hegemony on the planet is coming to an end .. Here, soon the Sarmatians will begin to place the mines ready!
1. Topgun
  
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  2 August 2017 16: 52
  
  hegemony does not depend on the number of ICBMs (all sides have enough weapons to sterilize the planet), hegemony depends on the economy (well, Russia cannot force the Germans to sell turbines - they do not help in the ICBMs) ...
  1. Vladimir16
    
    +10
    
    2 August 2017 17: 14
    
    Quote: Topgun
    Well, Russia can not force the Germans to sell turbines-they do not help in the ICBM
    
    Don’t break the bullshit !!!
    Siemens and a tie (hello to the Georgians !!!) and his shirt and underpants will gobble up in order to remain in the Russian market.
    Not Siemens imposed sanctions. The big question is who came up with the turbine circuit. And another question is who leaked information to the media. And where is the truth? Aw! ..... who knows?
    1. Topgun
      
      +2
      
      2 August 2017 20: 15
      
      What is the use of the presence of Siemens on the "Russian market" if at any time they can stop delivering the desired product on command from across the ocean?
      And about this story - the Germans decided to help (not for free of course, but in these conditions it is akin to a present), but the Russians merged their own, which is why the Germans lose their problems ...
      In this story, just the whole tragedy of today's Russia ...
      1. The splinter
        
        +2
        
        2 August 2017 21: 20
        
        It was not their own and non-Russian that merged, but also the Russians and their brothers who are not patriots of Russia, but live in Russia as (sent Cossacks) and outright saboteurs and saboteurs .... As for ICBMs, it is the number of ICBMs in the Russian Federation that stops the United States from to attack the Russian Federation, like Yugoslavia, Iraq, or Libya, with their slaves from NATO and the former USSR ... The turbines for ships in the Russian Federation have already made their own, since 2018 we expect serial ones, and for electric power stations they will, and for the Germans, how and Nikolaev, no one compensates for losses from the loss of the market in the Russian Federation.
        
        Topgun
        
        0
        
        2 August 2017 22: 46
        
        do you think that the scandal over stupid fotochki in crimea?
        by the way, "photographers" also needed to be informed :)
        merged info on top 100%
        it’s not clear Roman Filippov on this occasion was removed or competitors leaked the Old, and Filippov was the victim ...
        In any case, eta history shows not the best quality managers in Russia ...
        
        The splinter
        
        +1
        
        2 August 2017 22: 50
        
        And in the government of the Russian Federation it is full of brothers and tozherosiyans who are not patriots of Russia. It is enough to recall the bandera Narusova, who not so long ago was wiping her pants not somewhere else, but in the council of the Federation of the Russian Federation and such as she is ... Not the same (Yabloko) I don’t trust spring and she didn’t offer anything worthwhile, all that she pushes anti-people and anti-Russian ... The fact that Putin keeps such people in the government of the Russian Federation encourages bad thoughts ...
      2. Monster_Fat
        
        +1
        
        3 August 2017 06: 55
        
        And another question is who leaked information to the media. And where is the truth? Aw! ..... who knows?
        
        Leaked the one who boasted that they say "Western", or rather the German "Siemens" put on sanctions. Well, and in connection with the Siemens scandal, the director of Power Machines Roman Filippov was fired ....
  2. fzr1000
    
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    2 August 2017 18: 55
    
    What do you want?
  3. Morm
    
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    3 August 2017 07: 55
    
    [quote = Topgun] hegemony on the number of ICBMs (all sides have enough weapons to sterilize the planet) does not depend on hegemony depends on the economy (well, Russia can’t force the Germans to sell turbines - they don’t help in the ICBMs) ... [/ quote
    But Russia was able to force Armenia to open
  4. DenZ
    
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    3 August 2017 20: 29
    
    Quote: Topgun
    hegemony depends on economics (well, Russia cannot force the Germans to sell turbines - they don’t help in the ICBM) ...
    
    Hint that they say Germany is a hegemon because they have Siemens and turbines and we don’t ??? We have the poor, such only ICBMs
2. voyaka uh
  
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  2 August 2017 16: 55
  
  They have been conducting 2 tests per year regularly for 30 years.
  1. Inhabitant of Mordor
    
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    2 August 2017 16: 57
    
    And all are successful. Unlike the "Clubs".
    Threat.
    The start of the British does not count.
    1. Vladimir16
      
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      2 August 2017 17: 19
      
      Quote: Citizen of Mordor
      The start of the British does not count.
      
      Of course not count Why count failure? Let's not break statistics
      And juvenile American best and McDonald's and Coca-Cola
      Green card already issued, a resident of the Mordor? Deflection is protected !!!
      1. Inhabitant of Mordor
        
        +10
        
        2 August 2017 17: 26
        
        Not even going to.
        And there is a difference who lets. Either a user with a hundred successful or a user with a dozen of strength.
        And you do not have enough stuff for fantasy, except for
        Green card already issued, a resident of the Mordor? Deflection is protected !!!
        ?
    2. Muvka
      
      +4
      
      2 August 2017 17: 21
      
      Did the British launch Minitman? And I do not know. Well, that’s okay. And where did you get the idea that all launches are successful? Just know?
    3. NEXUS
      
      +11
      
      2 August 2017 17: 25
      
      Quote: Resident of Mordor
      And all are successful. Unlike the "Clubs".
      Threat.
      The start of the British does not count.
      
      And why are you comparing our new ICBM, which is also being modernized and brought to mind with the development of the 70s? Compare with the Governor or with the Blue Launches.
      About the "all successful" ...
      July 27, 2011 at 03:01 local time, at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a test launch of the Minuteman III ICBM was held. At the sixth minute of the flight, the rocket deviated significantly from the set parameters and it was decided to destroy it over the Pacific Ocean in the area of the Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands.
      1. Inhabitant of Mordor
        
        +4
        
        2 August 2017 17: 46
        
        If only you corrected me ... Also there. Or they would write that I dolboklyuy.
        I stupidly confused Minuteman III with the UGM-133A Trident ... I’m an idiot
        I am silent.
    4. hrych
      
      +7
      
      2 August 2017 17: 47
      
      Quote: Citizen of Mordor
      And all are successful. Unlike the "Clubs".
      
      Are you allowed to test analysis? The press can say anything.
      4 tests a year, on the contrary, should confuse you if you are in the subject. A control launch is somehow done with one rocket every few years, and every 5-10 years. That's when a problem has been outlined, or rather failure, then they start firing, trying to identify and fix the malfunction. The mace was a new rocket, each unit was tested, and this rocket is old, as it were, tested. This is embarrassing. But Trump does not believe the American press, only you believe
      1. Inhabitant of Mordor
        
        +1
        
        2 August 2017 17: 49
        
        Yes, everything is already. Read above.
    5. weksha50
      
      0
      
      2 August 2017 21: 30
      
      Quote: Citizen of Mordor
      And all are successful. Unlike the "Clubs".
      
      I compared something with a finger ... A minuteman - an old, reliable machine ... But the "Bulava" was created, worked out ... And it was completely normal that in the process of creating and testing a new rocket there were unsuccessful launches ...
      
      PS And so distort and juggle the facts ...
    6. Moore
      
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      3 August 2017 04: 16
      
      Quote: Resident of Mordor
      And all are successful. Unlike the "Clubs".
      
      Do you have statistics on successful / unsuccessful launches of the Minutemen before being adopted? Would share.
      About the "successful":
      July 27, 2011 at 03:01 local time, at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a test launch of the Minuteman III ICBM was held. At the sixth minute of the flight, the rocket deviated significantly from the set parameters and it was decided to destroy it over the Pacific Ocean in the area of the Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands.
  2. Lord of the Sith
    
    +4
    
    2 August 2017 17: 15
    
    Well this year this is the 4th launch.
    1. Muvka
      
      0
      
      2 August 2017 17: 21
      
      Not from a good life ...
      1. Lord of the Sith
        
        0
        
        2 August 2017 17: 26
        
        "at the end of 1978 their production was discontinued" I think they decided to reduce it to 300, and shoot the rest, so as not to dispose of it.
3. arnar114
  
  0
  
  3 August 2017 19: 05
  
  how much and when will the Sarmatians be? Soon - when? In 5-10 years? When will it be 450, well, at least 100 pcs.? In 2013, in the meantime, he spoke with an American military missile. He said that they refused to search for the “best” - they adopted 2 types of solid-fuel missiles Minitman and Trident D-5, which have proven their reliability and accuracy over time.
BVS

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2 August 2017 16: 39

Quote: Observer2014
US Air Force conducted another test of the Minuteman III ICBM
And the dummy warheads hit the target? Or they have strange tests pass. Missiles all in some areas stop flying. Probably not interested @ breakingmash will hit the dummy warheads or not

They (the USA) somehow do not care who and how they think about the quality of the Minuteman ICBM test on the VO website.
1. Kasym
  
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  2 August 2017 17: 00
  
  They care about something else, and they themselves are to blame when they left the missile defense system. "Do what you want". Bush Jr. So they will get Sarmat, Barguzin, Yars (Boundary), X-102, Mace and Caliber with the ability to overcome missile defense. All new. Therefore, against such a background, Minetmen-3, Trident-2 and Tomahawks somehow look faded. Moreover, after the collapse of the USSR, the States stopped producing poison. warheads.
  The Pentagon needs to make large investments, and not only that. For example BTT. And they are heavily spent on fighting, and not on development (Trump said that about a trillion was spent on ATO). And ... the arms race continues. And these are just the consequences of one contract. If others begin to cut down now (for example, medium-range missiles), then ... all this is sad.
  1. voyaka uh
    
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    2 August 2017 17: 21
    
    "Not only that, after the collapse of the USSR, the States stopped producing poisonous warheads.
    Big investments are needed for the Pentagon ... "////
    
    There they are not preparing for a nuclear war. And 450 old ICBMs in the mines
    enough to contain.
    They are more perplexed by the large regional conflicts that threaten their economy.
    and international trade.
Tolstoevsky

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2 August 2017 17: 44

Hollywood is a terrible force
1. DEPARTMENT
  
  +2
  
  2 August 2017 18: 17
  
  Quote: Tolstoevsky
  Hollywood is a terrible force
  
  I support you in your malice ...! Won as "comrades from Israel" passionately defend the United States .. Even panicked! he he
  
  Quote: voyaka uh
  They are more perplexed by major regional conflicts that threaten their economy and international trade.
  
  Traders and usurers ..! But we are different in Russia and nothing will come of you, in our "re-education" .. heh heh ..
  1. dauria
    
    +3
    
    2 August 2017 20: 33
    
    And we are different in Russia
    
    In Russia, "traders and usurers" are different? With tails or something? And as for the article and the number of launches - who knows their standards, resource, etc. ? Maybe they just decided to renew and check something. And they will strangle us not with rockets, but with the dollar or RMB. Not a century on the Soviet backlog to pull the economy.
    1. DEPARTMENT
      
      0
      
      2 August 2017 20: 59
      
      Quote: dauria
      And we are different in Russia
      
      In Russia, "traders and usurers" are different? With tails or something? And as for the article and the number of launches - who knows their standards, resource, etc. ? Maybe they just decided to renew and check something. And they will strangle us not with rockets, but with the dollar or RMB. Not a century on the Soviet backlog to pull the economy.
      
      With whiners like you, it’s for sure that we in Russia did not have long to live and resist .. I hope. that you are still few in power, etc. If Moscow surrenders, then the rest of Russia will stand to death .. Ural, Siberia, you will not take a lie!
      1. dauria
        
        +4
        
        2 August 2017 21: 06
        
        I hope so. that you are still few in power, etc.
        
        Little, little power ... don't worry. I won everything in the army. Such people are not allowed into power. Even the Minister of Defense of the "slanting" construction student has been appointed to you.
        Well, about "death" - so much mind is not needed. It’s more difficult to send an opponent to the grave. Here, in addition to desire, a lot of the country needs to have.
        
        DEPARTMENT
        
        0
        
        2 August 2017 21: 54
        
        Quote: dauria
        Little, little power ... don't worry. I won everything in the army. Such people are not allowed into power.
        
        Well, thank God! And then again the 90s ....
    2. The splinter
      
      +1
      
      2 August 2017 21: 32
      
      Well, Yuan will not succeed in strangling us. For the United States, China is now perhaps more dangerous than Russia. Moreover, China is also not stupid and understands this, especially since Taiwan, which is essentially occupied by the United States, continues to be considered its territory in China, and the disagreements between China and the United States over North Korea, the disputed islands in the Pacific Ocean and missile defense in South Korea are reasons for friendship is not added, and in Sudan, in which there is a civil war, the United States directly competes with China.
pvv113

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2 August 2017 20: 08

US military successfully tested intercontinental ballistic missile

A word to comrade Eun
Old26

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2 August 2017 20: 38

Quote: hrych
4 launches per year, allegedly verified old man, bad sign. It is strange that our virtual experts admired such a large number of test launches per year; this is not an experimental and new rocket. This indicates a test failure and a forced next test.

And the four starts of another proven "old man" called "Poplar" is also an unkind sign? This also indicates a test failure and a forced next test. Or 3 launches of "Sineva" and a wave launch every year - is it also talking about something? Too bad sign?

Quote: DEPARTMENT
Here we are soon “Sarmatians” will begin to place the mines are ready!

Yeah, soon. Not yet NOT ONE THROWING START, , it is not known how the same throwing will take place, since the GRC has no experience with PADs for such heavy missiles. It is not known how LI and GLI will go, and some are already placing them "soon" in the mines
The mines cannot be ready yet because no one knows the configuration of the rocket

Quote: voyaka uh
They have been conducting 2 tests per year regularly for 30 years.

Not always. In the past, there were 3 trials of the Minuteman and 4 Tridents. In 2015 - 4 Minutemans and 5 Tridents. It depends.
1. DEPARTMENT
  
  0
  
  2 August 2017 21: 57
  
  Quote: Old26
  Yeah, soon. There has not been ANY THROWING START yet, it is not known how the same throwing will take place, since the GRZ does not have experience with PADs for such heavy missiles. It is not known how LI and GLI will go, and some are already placing them "soon" in the mines
  The mines cannot be ready yet because no one knows the configuration of the rocket
  
  So we’ll give up, as Katz has been offering for a long time ..?
Mentat

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3 August 2017 00: 25

Quote: Resident of Mordor
And all are successful. Unlike the "Clubs".
Threat.
The start of the British does not count.

The mace has already been in service for several decades, isn’t it a fool? Kvakalka you from the swamp area, disguised as the emblem of the USSR.
Old26

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3 August 2017 08: 08

Quote: DEPARTMENT
So we’ll give up, as Katz has been offering for a long time ..?

No. Let's stop fooling around and running ahead of the engine, threatening what is not there yet.
And you listen. so already tomorrow or the day after tomorrow in the PR deployment of the Sarmatians will begin, and without fail with hypersonic maneuvering units.
Dzafdet

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3 August 2017 20: 02

Quote: hrych
4 launches per year, allegedly verified old man, bad sign. It is strange that our virtual experts admired such a large number of test launches per year; this is not an experimental and new rocket. This indicates a test failure and a forced next test.

No, this suggests that the mattresses have successfully mediated them. This rocket is far superior to the much-praised Mitovsky Poplar ...
Dzafdet

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3 August 2017 20: 05

Yeah, soon. There has not been ANY THROWING START yet, it is not known how the same throwing will take place, since the GRZ does not have experience with PADs for such heavy missiles. It is not known how LI and GLI will go, and some are already placing them "soon" in the mines
The mines cannot be ready yet because no one knows the configuration of the rocket
Oh how! And go to the GRC website weakly? There is a type of rocket, and therefore they know which mine to build or upgrade ...