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  2. Intercontinental ballistic missile - Wikipedia

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    Topol-M launch from silo Minuteman III launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, United States of America on 9 February 2023.. An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi), [1] primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

  3. ATACMS - Wikipedia

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    It uses solid propellant and is 13 feet (4.0 m) long and 24 inches (610 mm) in diameter, and the longest-range variants can fly up to 190 miles (300 km). [9] The missiles can be fired from the tracked M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and the wheeled M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).

  4. Comparison of ICBMs - Wikipedia

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    Lockheed Martin Space Systems: 7,400 km 33,142 kg 8x 100 kt Inactive 1977 Yes 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

  5. AGM-181 LRSO - Wikipedia

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    The AGM-181 Long Range Stand Off Weapon (LRSO) is a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile under development by Raytheon Technologies that will replace the AGM-86 ALCM. Development [ edit ]

  6. RS-28 Sarmat - Wikipedia

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    On 16 August 2022, a state contract was signed for the manufacture and supply of the Sarmat strategic missile system. [17] The missile officially entered operational service in September 2023, as the world's longest range and most powerful extant ICBM system. [18] Despite the Russian claims that the missile is on 'combat alert', since its 2022 ...

  7. Why long-range missiles could be either a silver bullet or a ...

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    Zelenskyy already has western-supplied, long-range precision weapons – the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, and British Storm Shadow and French SCALP missiles.

  8. Putin lowers bar for Russia to use nuclear weapons as ... - AOL

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    Putin lowered the bar for a nuclear attack after the US lifted a ban on Ukraine using long-range missiles. ... of the Army Tactical Missile System, which can strike targets nearly 200 miles from ...

  9. Missile defense systems by country - Wikipedia

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    Bavar-373 is an Iranian long-range road-mobile surface-to-air missile system unveiled in August 2016. Iran describes it as a competitor with the S-300 missile system . It is manufactured by the Iranian Defence Ministry in cooperation with unspecified local manufacturers and universities.