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Cool, an OT shot. They don’t do these as often as they did before the early 90s but they are still a scheduled operational requirement.
I witnessed one in 77 from the top of the hills overlooking the launch facility. Impressive, especially at dusk when you watch the missile start up out of the hole with flames licking the body of the missile and then the flash when it clears the hole and accelerates out to Kwajalein atoll.
Gave a good sense of what would have happened if we ever had to turn the keys and it sends a message to the hostile nations as well.