The Redstone Rocket:

Space and Missile Defense Command Soldiers and civilians play an important role in supporting the Air Force’s latest Glory Trip.

An unarmed Minuteman-III intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, during Air Force Global Strike Command’s Glory Trip-236 operational test, on Oct. 29, and impacted in a pre-established target zone roughly 4,200 miles away, near SMDC’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. RTS is a range and test facility located 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii.

The purpose of the ICBM test-launch program was to validate and verify the effectiveness, readiness, and accuracy of the weapon system and that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable, and effective to deter 21st century threats and reassure America’s allies…

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