That reentry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – May 21, 2025 – A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single ...

The launch of the unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) took place on Wednesday (May 21) at 3:01 a.m. ET (12:01 a.m. local Pacific time, or 0701 GMT). The missile ...

Carrying an Mk21 high-fidelity reentry vehicle, the ICBM took off at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time, accelerated to a speed in excess of 15,000 miles per hour, traveled over 4,200 miles, and struck a ...

What To Know The Minuteman III missile was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command said.

The ICBM was equipped with a test reentry vehicle, and traveled approximately four thousand two hundred miles to a test range near the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.

A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential 11-year, $879M to help the U.S. Air Force maintain re-entry system and vehicle subsystems that support an intercontinental ballistic missile ...

The missile was equipped with a single telemetered joint test assembly reentry vehicle, Air Force officials said, adding the test launch is part of routine activities to show the United States ...

Tests of the Minuteman III like the one that took place Feb. 19 yield data that will help the Air Force continue operating the 50-year-old intercontinental ballistic missiles.

This is a Mark 11 reentry vehicle nose cap, made by Avco. Mark 11s housed the single nuclear warhead on U.S. Air Force Minuteman I and II intercontinental ballistic missiles, which were deployed from ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – Feb. 19, 2025 – A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Vandenberg Space Force Base Guardians launched an unarmed Minuteman III ...