🇺🇸 - US test-fires ICBM Minuteman III

• The United States has carried out another test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the US Space Force's Vandenberg base.

• On Wednesday, September 6, at 01:26 a.m. (11:26 a.m. Moscow time - TASS), the US Air Force Global Strike Command carried out "an operational test launch" of an "unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile," the Vandenberg Space Force Base said in a statement.

• The purpose of the ICBM test launch was "to validate and verify the safety, security, effectiveness, and readiness of the weapon system," according to Air Force Global Strike Command.

• Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said earlier that the US administration had notified Russia in advance of its intention to conduct a test launch on September 6.

• The previous tests of Minuteman III were conducted in April.