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The Peacekeeper Rail Garrison is a mobile missile system that was developed by the United States Air Force during the 1980s as part of a plan to place fifty MGM-118A Peacekeeper [23] intercontinental ballistic missiles on the rail network of the United States.
Train pulling the Garrison car, which would be painted to resemble a standard rail car. (Missile hidden inside) On December 19, 1986, the White House announced that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had given approval to a plan for the development of a railroad-based system for basing part of the planned LGM-118 Peacekeeper – originally referred to as MX for "Missile, Experimental ...
Finally in 1986, the facility was converted to operate the Peacekeeper ICBM. The facility was deactivated in 2005 and turned over to Wyoming State Parks in December 2017. [2] The facility was opened to the public in August 2019 as the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility State Historic Site after restoration work done by the United States Air Force ...
A railcar-launched ICBM is an intercontinental ballistic missile that can be launched from a train. The first operational example, and the best-known, is the Soviet RT-23 Molodets . The United States planned and started development of an analogue, the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison , but abandoned the plan with the end of the Cold War .
LGM-118 Peacekeeper: US Boeing, Martin Marietta, TRW, 14,000 km 96,750 kg 10x 300 kt Inactive 1983 Yes Silo 120 m 32 Midgetman: US Martin Marietta: 11,000 km 13,600 kg 475 kt Inactive 1992 No Small ICBM Hard Mobile Launcher [5] 90 m 33 Trident II: United Kingdom and United States Lockheed Martin Space Systems: 11,300 km+ 58,500 kg
This system was also used by the Royal Navy who also retained MRV with the Chevaline upgrade, though the number of warheads in Chevaline was reduced to two due to the ABM counter-measures carried. [6] The Soviet Union deployed 3 MRVs on the R-27U SLBM and 3 MRVs on the R-36P ICBM. Refer to atmospheric re-entry for more details.
The U.S. Air Force is now just a few years away from launching into the $180 billion effort to replace the aging Minuteman III ICBM system that was activated more than 60 years ago.
From a launch control center, the missile combat crew can monitor the complex, launch the missile, or relax in the living quarters (depending on the ICBM system). The LCC is designed to provide maximum protection for the missile combat crew and equipment vital to missile launch.