MINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH SHOWCASES READINESS OF U.S. NUCLEAR FORCE'S SAFE, EFFECTIVE DETERRENT

A team of Air force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry at 11:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, Feb. 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
This test launch is part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States' nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective to deter twenty-first century threats and reassure our allies. Such tests have occurred over 300 times before and this test is not the result of current world events.

[@terryobrien5916]

Drop a few on Beijing

[@KPad87]

Drop em on North Korea or Iran instead

[@ianthespacenerd2]

What was that at 1:06 ?

[@MajorCaliber]

STAGING... it's a time-compressed video of a 3-Stage missile, but it looks like 1st-Stage drops off @1:02, then an edit/time-cut, to where burned out 2nd-Stage gets literally blasted away from the 3rd-Stage by powerful "pyrotechnics" (aka EXPLOSIVE BOLTS) @1:06... between the explosives and the rocket-exhaust from the 3rd-Stage, all those fragments get WHITE-hot!
Raise your hand if you ever wanted to put explosive-lug-nuts on your ex-wiff's car... I KID!... I'm a kidder... 😂😂😉😇

[@johnchornyTheOnly]

High silliness #HypersonicNightmares