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The systems were installed in the missile test ranges managed by the U.S. Air Force. [1] The systems were first installed in the Eastern Range, at the time the Atlantic Missile Range, and secondly in the Pacific, then known as the Pacific Missile Range. The Atlantic Missile Impact Location System and Pacific Missile Impact Location System were ...
A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines. Modern variants usually deliver multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), each of which carries a nuclear warhead and allows a single launched missile to strike several targets.
The sophisticated facility includes three test ranges – the Weapons Range, the Acoustic Range, and the FORACS Range – all located in the Tongue of the ocean (TOTO), a deep-ocean basin approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km) long by 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide, with depths as great as 6,000 feet (1,800 m).
The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range), is a missile test range in Marshall Islands (Pacific Ocean). It covers about 750,000 square miles (1,900,000 km 2 ) and includes rocket launch sites at the Kwajalein Atoll (on multiple islands), Wake Island ...
The UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed with the United States and Royal Navy. It was first deployed in March 1990, [ 6 ] and remains in service.
The first sea-based missile deterrent forces were a small number of conventionally powered cruise missile submarines and surface ships fielded by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s, deploying the Regulus I missile and the Soviet P-5 Pyatyorka (also known by its NATO reporting name SS-N-3 Shaddock), both land attack cruise missiles that could be launched from surfaced submarines.
Delta III submarine 900m 10 R-29RL: Russia State Rocket Center Makeyev 9,000 km 35,300 kg 1x 450kt Inactive N/A No Delta III submarine 900m 11 R-29RM: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 8,300 km 40,300 kg 4x 200kt Inactive 1982 Yes Delta IV submarine: 550m 12 R-29RMU Sineva: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 11,547 km 40 300 kg ...
Concerns related to the limited range of K-15 ballistic missile operationalised by the submarine was addressed gradually with the development of a higher range version. [18] Test launch of the K-4 in March 2014. The missile traversed 3000 km into Indian Ocean. In January 2010, the K-4 was secretly tested off Vishakhapatnam. The 10 metre long ...