{"id":86525,"date":"2019-11-20T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=86525"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:00:16","slug":"minuteman-iii-intercontinental-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/minuteman-iii-intercontinental-ballistic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently which of the following country tested fired intercontinental ballistic missile Minuteman III?<br> (a) USA<br> (b) North Korea<br> (c) China <br> (d) France<br> Answer: (a)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On October 2, 2019; the United States Air Force (USAF) successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) named as Minuteman III.<\/li><li>Fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, this was an unarmed missile equipped with reentry vehicle.<\/li><li>It travelled approximately 4,200 miles (6,750km) across the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some special features of Minuteman III:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It was the first US missile fitted with Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs).<\/li><li>It enables it to carry up to three different warheads that can strike independent targets. <\/li><li>This missile project was started in 1966 and the missile is armed with 170 kilotons of TNT (Trinitrotoluene). <\/li><li>Airborne Launch Control System is a part of the missile.<\/li><li>At present the US has as maximum as 440 Minuteman III missile in its arsenal<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/us-test-icbm-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-north-korea-11963404\">https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/us-test-icbm-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-north-korea-11963404<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-claims-successful-icbm-tests\/article29577844.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-claims-successful-icbm-tests\/article29577844.ece<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently which of the following country tested fired intercontinental ballistic missile Minuteman III? (a) USA (b) North Korea (c) China (d) France Answer: (a) Related facts: On October 2, 2019; the United States Air Force (USAF) successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) named as Minuteman III. Fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}