An unarmed U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile was intentionally destroyed when something went wrong during a test launch from California.
Test launches ensure America’s land-based nuclear missiles are still viable after more than 50 years.
This was the first Minuteman III test conducted from an airborne control center on a Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft since August.
The Minuteman III's reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles over the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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