{"id":4898,"date":"2019-08-19T21:36:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2019-08-19T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:37:12","slug":"u-s-defense-department-conducts-first-flight-test-of-land-based-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/08\/19\/u-s-defense-department-conducts-first-flight-test-of-land-based-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CONDUCTS FIRST FLIGHT TEST OF LAND BASED CRUISE MISSILE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4899\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/US-MISSILE-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defence Blog<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon announced that on Sunday was conducted the first flight test of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Aug. 18, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the Defense Department conducted a flight test of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, Calif,\u201d said in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData collected and lessons learned from this test will inform DOD\u2019s development of future intermediate-range capabilities,\u201d said in the DoD.<\/p>\n<p>Officials stressed that the missile is designed to carry a conventional and not a nuclear payload.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/news\/u-s-defense-department-conducts-first-flight-test-of-new-ground-launched-cruise-missile.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defence Blog Pentagon announced that on Sunday was conducted the first flight test of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile. \u201cOn Aug. 18, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the Defense Department conducted a flight test of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, Calif,\u201d said in the announcement. The test&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/08\/19\/u-s-defense-department-conducts-first-flight-test-of-land-based-cruise-missile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CONDUCTS FIRST FLIGHT TEST OF LAND BASED CRUISE MISSILE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}