US tests ground launch cruise missile previously banned under INF

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Source: CNN

(CNN)The US military conducted a flight test of a conventional ground-launched cruise missile off the western coast of the US Sunday, a missile test that would have been previously banned under the now defunct Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the Pentagon said Monday.

"The Department of Defense conducted a flight test of a conventionally-configured ground-launched cruise missile off the US West Coast Sunday. We are currently evaluating the results of the test," Lt. Col. Carla Gleason told CNN.

The test was conducted from San Nicolas Island, California, and the Pentagon said that "the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight."

Officials stressed that the missile is designed to carry a conventional and not a nuclear payload.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/19/politics/test-ground-launch-cruise-missile/index.html

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1. Arms Race 2: Electric Boogaloo

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2. conventionally-configured ground-launched cruise missile

Hopefully the handjobs checked to make sure they didn't load a nuke on the thing..