US EditionUS Air Force Launches Unarmed ICBM Amid Trump’s Call for Renewed Nuclear Testing
- On Nov. 5, 2025, Air Force Global Strike Command launched an unarmed Minuteman III from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, as part of routine land-based ICBM testing.
- As the U.S. modernizes, it plans to phase out Minuteman III beginning in 2029 with the $141 billion LGM-35A Sentinel ballistic missile system, and Gen. S.L. Davis urged maintaining Minuteman III readiness.
- Using the Airborne Launch Control System, the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron aboard a U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft initiated GT 254, supported by 90th Missile Wing maintainers, ending at Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll.
- Telemetry at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site collected telemetry, metric and signature sensor data during GT 254, which AFGSC said evaluated the ICBM system's reliability, readiness and accuracy.
- Amid growing strategic concern, the U.S. has observed a moratorium on explosive nuclear testing since 1992 but continues regular ICBM and SLBM unarmed test launches, while Pentagon officials said it remains unclear if more tests will follow.
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The US Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday early morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US media reported, citing a press release from base officials. Following that, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US had notified Russia about the test.
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The United States (US) on Wednesday fired an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nearly a week after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons.
The U.S. Armed Forces have conducted a test launch on Wednesday for an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile, the first since the country's president, Donald Trump, announced his intention to resume nuclear weapons testing.The missile, a 'Minuteman III', was fired at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at around 1.35 p.m. on Wednesday (10.35 hours in Peninsular and Balearic Spain), as announced by the Department of Defense, hours …
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