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Spike was designed by the U.S. Navy, with assistance from DRS Technologies, and is proclaimed to be "the world's smallest guided missile."Initially made to be carried by U.S. Marines, with three missiles and the launcher able to fit in a standard backpack, it weighs 5.4 lb (2.4 kg), is 25 in (640 mm) long, and 2.25 in (57 mm) in diameter.
The Ohio class was designed in the 1970s to carry the concurrently designed Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile. The first eight Ohio-class submarines were armed at first with 24 Trident I C4 SLBMs. [6] Beginning with the ninth Trident submarine, Tennessee, the remaining boats were equipped with the larger, three-stage Trident II D5 ...
Ohio-class submarine: 380 m < 26 Atlas [Note 5] US Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair) 14,500 km 117,900 kg Inactive 1959 No 27 Titan I: US Glenn L. Martin Company: 10,200 km 105,140 kg 3.75 Mt Inactive 1959 No Silo 28 Titan II: US Glenn L. Martin Company 15,000 km 154,000 kg 9 Mt Inactive 1962 No Silo 29 Minuteman I: US Boeing 8,900 km ...
Missile.index – Based on Shinkigensha Co.Ltd's "Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Missile Systems"; ill. by Hitoshi Kitamura Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles – By Andreas Parsch
USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-735) is a nuclear-powered, United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine that has been in commission since 1989. She is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania .
An Ohio-class submarine was used Thursday night as part of large scale retaliatory strikes against sites in Yemen Thursday associated with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been firing dozens ...
Small Advanced Capabilities Missile (SACM) 'CUDA' is a US Air Force concept for a next-generation beyond visual range air-to-air missile. Unlike most Air to Air missiles, the CUDA uses 'hit to kill' technology instead of an explosive warhead , allowing it to save weight by removing the relatively heavy explosive warhead.
1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, must have been staring at an empty dock for a while now, because the 168 milly he shelled out for a 400-foot yacht is ...