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In US service Trident II can be loaded with up to eight Mk-5 RVs with 475-kt W88 warheads, up to fourteen Mk-4A RVs with 90-kt W76-1 warheads, and up to fourteen Mk-4A RVs with 5–7-kt W76-2 warheads. [citation needed] In practice, each missile on average carries four warheads due to the warhead limitations placed by the New START treaty. [41]
20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles USS Alaska (SSBN-732) , is a United States Navy Ohio -class ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1986. She is the fourth US Navy ship to be named for the Territory or State of Alaska .
An unknown number of North Korean ballistic missiles were transferred to Russia in October 2023, according to declassified US intelligence. Based on debris left by Russian attacks on Ukrainian targets on 30 December 2023, the ring housing the control vanes have been identified as being characteristic to the KN-23 and KN-24 missiles.
The largest ballistic missile attack in history took place on 1 October 2024 when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched about 200 missiles at Israel, [5] a distance of about 1,500 kilometers. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The missiles arrived about 15 minutes after launch. [ 9 ]
[31] [32] According to data released through the South Korean National Defense Committee, the missile weighs 36 tons and has a warhead payload of 8 tons, which is the same weight as the LGM-30 Minuteman III, a 36-ton Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed in the United States, and was developed as a bunker-buster missile for ...
The MGM-52 Lance was a mobile field artillery tactical surface-to-surface missile (tactical ballistic missile) system used to provide both nuclear and conventional fire support to the United States Army. The missile's warhead was developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Polaris Type 2; KN-15 [4] under the U.S. naming convention) is a North Korean medium-range or intermediate-range ballistic missile. [5] Described as 'nuclear-capable', its first test flight was on 12 February 2017, [ 6 ] although two previous launches in October 2016 that were initially thought to be Hwasong-10 were possibly failed launches of ...
The SSM-N-9 Regulus II missile was intended to be launched from the deck of an SSG (guided missile submarine), and the missile most likely would have been deployed on the two Grayback-class submarines and the USS Halibut (SSGN-587), which were designed for the missile, and possibly eventually on four heavy cruisers that had deployed with ...