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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

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Launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

A view of an operation test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

Launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

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Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Unknown

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/07/1980
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label_outline Explore Minuteman Ballistic Missile, Minuteman, Minuteman Iii

SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron services communications equipment in the battle staff compartment of an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Missile Maintenance Technicians from the 90th MXS/LSS stand at the opening of Minuteman III Silo, Alpha-7. Pictured are: SENIOR AIRMAN Eric Laboarde (on diveboard), STAFF SGT. Jason Bruns & STAFF SGT. Monte Reeder (in work cage)

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic

At 7:59 am PDT the second of two unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is successfully launched

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a

A Minuteman III missile takes off from Launch Facility 26

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry

An air-to-air view of an MGM-118A Peacekeeper international ballistic missile moments after launching. This is the first test launch of the Peacekeeper

A view of the launch of a U.S. Army Pershing II missile, the first of its type launched, malfunctioned in flight during first stage burn and was destroyed

Artwork: "Minuteman ICBM Being Loaded Into a C-141, Vandenberg AFB"Artist: Winston Taylor

A reconfigured Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg AFB at 8:39 p.m. 23 June 1997. The missile, part of the Multi-Service Launch System developed by Lockheed-Martin Astronautics, deployed a payload of nine target objects in space to test sensors carried aloft by a second Minuteman II that was launched from the Kwajalein Missile Range in the south Pacific Ocean approximately 20 minutes later. It carried sensors using existing National Missile Defense technology to identify and track the nine target objects released by the Vandenberg missile. A side effect from the launch resulted in what is termed as a "twilight phenomenon," a multicolored light...

An artist's concept of a Soviet SS-18 follow-on intercontinental ballistic missile

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