America’s missile test failure; Intercontinental ballistic missile explosion in the air

Officials of this base said in a statement confirming the failure of this test on Thursday local time: Minotaur II rocket exploded in the air about 11 seconds after launch at 11:10 local time on Wednesday night.

According to these officials, as a result of the explosion of this missile, the Vandenberg Space Force base caught fire, but the wreckage of the missile hit the ground near the launch site and no one was injured.

Firefighters were sent to this base and managed to contain it. An investigation into the cause of the explosion has begun.

Vandenberg Air Force Base has been testing the new US Air Force missile.

This missile, along with the intercontinental ballistic missile LGM 35A, which is still in production, is supposed to replace the old Minuteman missiles of the US Army.

Meanwhile, the CNN news channel also reported on July 10: The first test of the American hypersonic missile with its complete system failed.

Therefore, the report of this test, which was carried out at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, was supposed to test the body of this missile under the name “Common Hypersonic Glide Body” on a two-stage booster booster. This rocket body could not reach the speed of about Mach 5 without this booster.

CNN added: While the US military failed to launch its first hypersonic missile with its complete system, the Congress of this country has long expressed concern over the US missile technology lagging behind China and Russia, because Russia is now It has used this technology in its Skand and Khanjar missiles.

According to IRNA, the US Air Force announced the successful test of a hypersonic missile on May 27 last month. A missile whose test launch had failed three times in the past; This missile without a booster, which the Pentagon intended to test, had been tested.

The US Missile Defense Agency also admitted in June of last year that a US warship had failed to intercept a test medium-range ballistic missile.

The agency said in a statement that the purpose of the test was to demonstrate the Agis ship’s ability to identify, track, counter and intercept a medium-range ballistic missile.

The statement of the US Missile Defense Agency continued that two SM-6 missiles were fired from the Agis ship to intercept the medium-range ballistic missile.