A Russian military exercise is claimed to have recently triggered a ballistic “missile launch alert’ at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany, according to multiple US defense officials cited by CNN.
On 12 December personnel at the base, as well as in the surrounding areas, had received computerized notifications of the alert, with a missile warning also sounded at Ramstein via a loudspeaker system.
After a brief spell of alarm, an all-clear was given, according to the officials, whose initial assessment was that the incident may have been triggered when highly classified US intelligence satellites detected a launch.
According to the cited sources, satellites tracking the infrared trail of ballistic missiles determined that four intercontinental missiles had been test-fired from a submerged Russian submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk off western Russia on Saturday.
Source: Sputnik
