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Trident missile fired across California skyline, terrifies everybody

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I thought this was cool. Cue the conspiracy theorists. 

 

 

Beach-goers seeking a romantic evening under the stars on Saturday in Southern California got quite a surprise. Shortly after sunset, a fireball overhead sparked widespread confusion and speculation. Was it a meteor, rocket, or, perhaps, an alien spacecraft? By late Saturday, it was confirmed to be a multi-stage missile test from a US Navy submarine.

The military provided no advance information about a launch, however, in the immediate aftermath some key clues did emerge. Earlier this week, Los Angeles International Airport—which normally routes flights over water instead of nearby residential areas to reduce noise—announced it was temporarily diverting flights from sea-based landing routes to steer clear of air space requested by the military. Then, about an hour after the fireball was widely reported on social media, the Orange County Sheriff's Department tweeted that the light seen over southern California was "a Naval test fire off the coast."

Later Saturday a US Navy spokesman finally confirmed that the fireball was, in fact, a Trident II (D5) missile test flight at sea from the Kentucky, an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. This Trident missile, which has three stages that matched amateur videos of the event, has a range of 7,360 km. It is part of the country's triad of nuclear deterrents, including land-based missile systems and manned bombers.

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Trident II missiles cost over $37 million US each. It better have been impressive.

Only the morons were terrified.

Each Trident II can carry up to 14 nuclear warheads so anyone who saw it and knew what it was should have been concerned since there was no warning to the public before the tests. "oh look a nuclear missile, Im sure this will end well"

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Only the morons were terrified.

dunno, my friend in SF told me about it and said none of the videos even begin to do it justice. it was pretty intense in the sky apparently. i added a bit of exaggeration with the 'terrified' bit, but it would be very difficult for a person to watch something like that shooting into the sky before exploding so dramatically and be like "eh!"

i would have been putting glasses of water all over my apartment just in case Shyamalan is right,

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Trident II missiles cost over $37 million US each. It better have been impressive.

Each Trident II can carry up to 14 nuclear warheads so anyone who saw it and knew what it was should have been concerned since there was no warning to the public before the tests. "oh look a nuclear missile, Im sure this will end well"

They informed those that needed to know. If this was public information there'd be Chinese/North Korean/Russian "tourists" littering the beach that night

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Trident II missiles cost over $37 million US each. It better have been impressive.

Each Trident II can carry up to 14 nuclear warheads so anyone who saw it and knew what it was should have been concerned since there was no warning to the public before the tests. "oh look a nuclear missile, Im sure this will end well"

I would assume that these test missiles had no nukes in them, so I would hope the cost per would come down a fair bit.  Still, it would be interesting to know what they did cost, and what they were hoping to learn from the test.  I don't think they'll share all that info with us though.

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