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A Russian Strategic Rocket Forces MZKT 79221 missile vehicle carrying an RT-2PM2 Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile. A missile vehicle, also known as a missile carrier, missile truck, or (if capable of launching) missile launcher vehicle, is a military vehicle that is purpose-built and designed to carry missiles, either for safe transportation or for launching missiles in combat.
The WS51200 is one of the largest in the WS family of transport trucks and TELs. The size of the WS51200 allows it to carry intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Despite being made in China, North Korea remains the only military user of these vehicles.
China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology: 12,000 km 183,000 kg 4 Mt Unknown 1971 No Silo 1,000 m 39 DF-5A China China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology: 15,000 km 183,000 kg 5 Mt Active 1983 No Silo 1,000 m 40 DF-5B: China China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology: 15,000 km 183,000 kg Active 2015 Yes Silo 800m 40 DF-5C: China
Such vehicles exist for both surface-to-air missiles and surface-to-surface missiles.Early on, such missiles were launched from fixed sites and had to be loaded onto trucks for transport, making them more vulnerable to attack, since once they were spotted by the enemy they could not easily be relocated, and if they were it often took hours or even days to prepare them for launch once they ...
A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target. The concept is almost invariably associated with intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying thermonuclear warheads , even if not strictly being limited to ...
From clearing mines and moving earth to mobile weapons units and cross-country fighting machines, these are the biggest, baddest, and most impressive vehicles in use in the U.S. military. Editor's ...
M1296 "Dragoon" – All M1126 vehicles will be converted to this standard or attached with 4 Hellfire missiles. M1127 reconnaissance vehicle (RV) M1129 mortar carrier (MC) M1130 command vehicle (CV) M1131 fire support vehicle (FSV) M1132 engineer squad vehicle (ESV) M1133 medical evacuation vehicle (MEV) M1134 anti-tank guided missile vehicle ...
The Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle ("HLV") was an alternate super heavy-lift launch vehicle proposal for the NASA Constellation program, proposed in 2009. [ 74 ] A 1962 design proposal, Sea Dragon , called for an enormous 150 m (490 ft) tall, sea-launched rocket capable of lifting 550 t (1,210,000 lb) to low Earth orbit.