VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- An LGM-30 Minuteman III missile soars in the air after a test launch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile#Land-based_ICBMs
The LGM-30G Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a silo. The "L" in LGM ;is the Department of Defense designation for silo-launched; "G" means surface attack; and "M" stands for guided missile.
The LGM-30 Minuteman III is an US nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It is a guided missile with three solid-fuel stages, and in the post-boost stage rocket engine is used to dispense individual nuclear warheads to separate targets
Two missile maintenance crewmen perform an electrical check on an LGM-30F Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in its silo. This is a deployed ICBM (not a test)The 2009 Minuteman force consists of 450 Minuteman III missiles in missile silos mostly in the midwest.
The front gate of Vandenberg is on Highway One six miles north of Lompoc CA, in Santa Barbara county. Join us at the front gate the night of August 22/23 to protest the ICBM launch.
Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is the Ronald Reagan missile test range, and no Marshallese people live on Kwajalein. The people are crowed on nearby islands and come over by boat to work at service jobs during the day.
