{"id":8297,"date":"2019-08-20T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2019-08-20T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:52:09","slug":"us-tests-ground-launched-cruise-missile-after-inf-treaty-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8297","title":{"rendered":"US Tests Ground-Launched Cruise Missile after INF Treaty Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has conducted a flight test of a conventional ground-launched cruise missile, the Defense Department said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon successfully carried out the test at San Nicolas Island, California, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The missile was launched Sunday at 2:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time (2130 GMT) and comes shortly after Washington left the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Pentagon said the test took place on Sunday at San Nicolas Island, California, and the missile hit its target after more than 500km of flight.<\/p>\n<p>Under the treaty, such missile launches were banned.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration formally withdrew the US from the landmark 1987 pact with Russia on August 2 after determining that Moscow was violating the treaty, an accusation the Kremlin has denied.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the U.S. formally announced its withdrawal from the treaty, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Washington wants to deploy an intermediate-range conventional missile in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has conducted a flight test of a conventional ground-launched cruise missile, the Defense Department said Monday. The Pentagon successfully carried out the test at San Nicolas Island, California, the department said in a statement. The missile was launched Sunday at 2:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time (2130 GMT) and comes shortly after Washington left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","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=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}