US to launch hypersonic nuclear missile hours after election in show of strength

The US subject is acceptable to motorboat an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base, conscionable hours aft the polls close

The US military is prepping for a melodramatic showcase of its firepower with the scheduled trial motorboat of a hypersonic atomic missile.

The display, acceptable to instrumentality spot successful the Presidential Election, volition spot an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) soar into the skies from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base betwixt 11:01pm and 5:01am PT.

Some Americans person raised eyebrows astir the timing of the missile's launch, but subject officials person stepped successful to calm nerves, saying the "test is regular and was scheduled years successful advance."

They've been keen to accent that the show is intended to affirm the "readiness of atomic US forces" portion boosting "confidence successful the nation's atomic deterrence".

This improvement arises amidst a heightened planetary hostility backdrop, raising concerns astir a imaginable 3rd world warfare being connected the horizon. The ongoing warfare successful Ukraine on with strife successful the Middle East has captured planetary attraction arsenic Western and anti-Western powers prosecute straight oregon indirectly successful the conflicts.

Then there's the substance of Taiwan – the self-declared autarkic authorities which China eyes assertively – arsenic speculation mounts implicit imaginable American involution should China initiate an invasion. With each eyes connected these geopolitical hotspots, the missile's unthinkable velocity volition beryllium showcased erstwhile it thunders crossed the Pacific Ocean skyline aft voting concludes, reports the Express.

The limb volition travel 4,200 miles from its US basal to Kwajalein Atoll, a minuscule land successful the North Pacific. Despite the region being equivalent to that betwixt London and New Delhi, the travel volition instrumentality a specified 22 minutes. The limb tin scope blistering speeds of implicit 15,000mph, implying it could deed immoderate people globally wrong conscionable 30 minutes of launch.

It comes aft China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic rocket into the Pacific Ocean, stirring information concerns successful the portion already tense implicit Beijing's territorial claims and rivalry with the US recently.

The ICBM carried a dummy warhead and fell into a designated country of the sea, the Defense Ministry said successful a connection posted to societal media. The motorboat by the People's Liberation Army's Rocket Force was portion of regular yearly training, complied with planetary instrumentality and was not directed against immoderate state oregon target, according to the statement.