{"id":10219,"date":"2019-10-03T11:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:57:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T06:57:53","slug":"u-s-successfully-tests-intercontinental-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10219","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Successfully Tests Intercontinental Ballistic Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military said on Wednesday it had tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with reentry vehicle from a base in California across the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Launched from Vanden\u00adberg Air Force Base at 1:13am local time the reent\u00ad\u00adry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles (6,750km) across the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the Air Force Global Strike Com\u00admand said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTest launches are not a response or reaction to world events or regional tensions,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has spent decades and billions of dollars developing technologies to stop an incoming ballistic missile, and is aiming to step up efforts in the face of growing threats.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea became the latest entrant to the ICBM club in 2017 when it tested the Hwasong-15, which analysts say is capable of reaching the whole US mainland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military said on Wednesday it had tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with reentry vehicle from a base in California across the Pacific Ocean. Launched from Vanden\u00adberg Air Force Base at 1:13am local time the reent\u00ad\u00adry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles (6,750km) across the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}