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The MIRV U.S. Peacekeeper missile, with the re-entry vehicles highlighted in red. Technicians secure a number of Mk12A re-entry vehicles on a Peacekeeper MIRV bus. LGM-118A Peacekeeper MIRV at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. A Trident II missile, operated exclusively by the US Navy and Royal Navy. Each missile can carry up ...
Trident missile launch at sea from a Royal Navy Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine. The U.S. Navy currently has 18 Ohio-class submarines deployed, of which 14 are designated SSBNs and armed with 24 [citation needed] Trident II SLBMs each, for a total of 288 Trident II missiles equipped with 1,152 MIRV nuclear warheads.
The successful test of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) technology on the indigenously developed Agni-V ICBM puts India in a club that includes the United States, Russia ...
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 ...
“It follows China’s deployment of MIRVs on some of its DF-5 ICBMs, Pakistan’s apparent pursuit of MIRVs for its Ababeel medium-range missile, North Korea may also be pursuing MIRV technology ...
The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). Originally developed by Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation , the missile is armed with thermonuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs).
Pages in category "MIRV capable missiles" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... R-36 (missile) RS-24 Yars; RS-26 Rubezh; RS-28 Sarmat;
China is among the countries pursuing hypersonic vehicles as warhead delivery systems. [78] Yousaf Butt, a critic of missile defense, states in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that "just as with nuclear weapons, the U.S. infatuation with missile defense will cause other nations to desire this expensive technology". [79]