US Air Force Test Launches Minuteman III Ballistic Missile

Forty-five years to the day since the US first put its first Minuteman III missiles on alert, the US Air Force on August 19 conducted a test launch of the missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. According to the Air Force Global Strike Command, the launch was “part of the system’s operational test and evaluation program, which provides valuable data to evaluators and validates the reliability of the ICBM fleet.” Credit: YouTube/US Air Force