U.S. Aborts Minuteman III ICBM Missile Test Launch Our Bureau 1467
A test launch of United States’ Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), capable of carrying multiple self-guided nuclear warheads, scheduled for Wednesday, was aborted just prior to launch, the US Air Force s Global Strike Command said. The cause of the ground abort is being investigated and Air force Global Strike Command is assessing the potential to reschedule the launch,” a statement from the Command said.
The missile was scheduled to launch at 00:15 on Thursday, US West Coast time from a silo launcher at Vandenberg AFB in California.
The unarmed warhead of the rocket was supposed to, having flown 6.76 thousand km, hit a given target at the American range in the area of the Kwajalein atoll (Marshall Islands) in the central part of the Pacific Ocean.