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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 29,000 kg 1.2 Mt Inactive 1961 No Silo 30 Minuteman II: US Boeing 10,200 km 33,000 kg 1.2 Mt Inactive 1965 No Silo 31 LGM-118 Peacekeeper: US
The DF-5 had its first flight in 1971 and was in operational service 10 years later. One of the downsides of the missile was that it took between 30 and 60 minutes to fuel. The Dong Feng 31 (a.k.a. CSS-10) is a medium-range, three-stage, solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, and is a land-based variant of the submarine-launched JL-2.
Minuteman III launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 9 February 2023.. The LGM-30 Minuteman is an American land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles are strategic weapons designed to deliver long-distance nuclear warheads and are an important part of Russia’s nuclear deterrent. ICBMs have a range of more ...
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 LGM-35 Sentinel, also known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), is a future American land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system (ICBM) currently in the early stages of development. [3] [4] It is slated to replace all 450 Minuteman III missiles from 2029 through 2075. The Minuteman missiles are currently stationed in ...
The RS-28 Sarmat (Russian: РС-28 Сармат, [7] named after the Sarmatians; [8] NATO reporting name: SS-X-29 [9] or SS-X-30 [10]), often colloquially referred to as Satan II by media outlets, is a three-stage Russian silo-based, liquid-fueled, HGV-capable and FOBS-capable super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau.
The company had been the key missile producer for Soviet ICBM and space exploration programs. Historic and Pivdenmash launch systems included: the R-5 Pobeda — the Soviet Union's first nuclear armed missile; the R-12 Dvina theatre ballistic missile; the R-14 Chusovaya theatre ballistic missile; the R-16 — the first widely deployed ICBM of ...