{"id":22722,"date":"2017-02-10T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2017-02-10T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:33:47","slug":"air-force-test-launches-minuteman-icbm-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22722","title":{"rendered":"Air-Force Test-Launches Minuteman ICBM From California"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-10\/air-force-test-launches-minuteman-icbm-california\">Air-Force Test-Launches Minuteman ICBM From California<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-587936 ads-injected\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><strong>The rattling of sabres grows ever louder.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/02\/09\/air-force-test-launches-minuteman-missile-california.html\">Military.com reports<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/air-force\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force<\/a>\u00a0says an\u00a0<strong>unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California&#8217;s central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The missile blasted off at 11:39 p.m. PDT Wednesday from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/base-guide\/vandenberg-air-force-base\" target=\"_blank\">Vandenberg Air Force Base<\/a>\u00a0northwest of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force says the missile carried test re-entry vehicles that\u00a0<strong>headed for a target area 4,200 miles away to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force routinely uses Vandenberg to test Minuteman missiles from bases around the country.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">This test involved personnel from Vandenberg&#8217;s 576th Flight Test Squadron and the 91st Missile Wing,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/base-guide\/minot-air-force-base\" target=\"_blank\">Minot Air Force Base<\/a>, North Dakota.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/02\/10\/20170210_ICBM.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In this photo provided by U.S. Air Force, an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air-Force Test-Launches Minuteman ICBM From California The rattling of sabres grows ever louder.\u00a0Military.com reports\u00a0that the\u00a0Air Force\u00a0says an\u00a0unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California&#8217;s central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system. The missile blasted off at 11:39 p.m. PDT Wednesday from\u00a0Vandenberg Air Force Base\u00a0northwest of Los Angeles. The Air Force says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14791,9212,4318],"class_list":["post-22722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-minuteman-icbm","tag-us-air-force","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22724,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions\/22724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}