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The Minuteman III is a silo-based missile. With the removal of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, the Minuteman III has become the only US land-based ICBM in service. It was the first MIRV capable missile.

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An unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time, May 21, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. (Image credit ...

The Air Force successfully tested an unarmed Minuteman III strategic nuclear missile in an unannounced post-midnight launch Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara.

The plan was for the U.S. to construct new missile silos across multiple states, build new nuclear missiles to place in those silos, and churn out new nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines.

This Minuteman III test launch took place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2005. The most powerful missile now fielded by the United States is the LGM-30G Minuteman III.

A look down into a missile silo where a deactivated Minuteman nuclear missile sits at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, near Wall, South Dakota.

A look down into a missile silo where a deactivated Minuteman nuclear missile sits at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, near Wall, South Dakota.

The Minuteman I ICBM, first deployed in 1962, was considered a major advancement because its solid fuel enabled it to launch on command, fired directly from its underground silo.