Posted on Feb 5, 2020
New Warhead Fuze Gets Tested In 1st 2020 Minuteman III Launch
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VANDENBERG AFB: The team from the Air Force 576 Flight Test Squadron monitoring tomorrow night’s test launch of a Minuteman III ICBM will be using pale pink ‘touch-tone’ telephone handsets — first introduced in 1963 — to communicate with each other and their counterparts at the launch site itself.
New Warhead Fuze Gets Tested In 1st 2020 Minuteman III Launch
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Air Force test-launches intercontinental ballistic missile
The U.S. military test-launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early Wednesday, Air Force Global Strike Command said in a news release.
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I am sorry, but I am not buying all of this. One: I worked on REACT when I was stationed at BMO at Norton AFB and that system has been installed. Two; I also worked Titan IV launches at Vandenburg, and I do not remember all of those old phones still being there then. That was in 1995! If this is a true story, then someone is spreading info that does not need to be issued to the public, and I really believe this is just someone trying to get more money for their Missile System because they believe they are not getting enough now.
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The pink phones are not in the capsule. Also, the fact that we are using "old-school" technology is not new news. The old comms are actually more secure since they are independent of the internet. We don't need fancy phones to keep the Kremlin at bay.
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MSgt Richard Randall
MSgt (Join to see) - Wonder if they're still using the blue ESI Net bat-phones.
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MSgt Richard Randall - I'm not sure about that one. I haven't seen any blue phones.
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