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not seem to have as much potential for MIRV usage as the Soviets... government claimed to have developed the most advanced MIRV system as of 2006 for use in the...

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M.I.R.V. | The MIRVed U.S. Peacekeeper missile, with the re-entry vehicles highlighted in red. | | Peacekeeper | nuclear weapons | intercontinental ballistic missile | submarine-launched ballistic missile | Technicians secure a number of Mk-21 re-entry vehicles on a Peacekeeper MIRV bus. | | Peacekeeper | missile | nuclear warhead | inverse-square law | SALT | anti-ballistic missile | striking first | throw-weight | SLBMs | START II | ABM Treaty | Bulava missile | booster | suborbital | inertial guidance system | reentry | warhead | Minuteman III MIRV launch sequence: 1. The missile launches out of its silo by firing its first stage boost motor (A). 2. About 60 seconds after launch, the 1st stage drops off and the second stage motor (B) ignites. The missile shroud is ejected. 3. About 120 seconds after launch, the third stage motor (C) ignites and separates from the 2nd stage. 4. About 180 seconds after launch, third stage thrust terminates and the Post-Boost Vehicle (D) separates from the rocket. 5. The Post-Boost Vehicle maneuvers itself and prepares for re-entry vehicle (RV) deployment. 6. While the Post-Boost Vehicle backs away, decoys and chaff are deployed (unlike the figure suggests this may be during ascent). 7. The RVs and chaff re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds and are armed in flight. 8. The nuclear warheads detonate, either as air bursts or ground bursts. | | Minuteman III | military secrets | propellant | hypersonic | airfoils | British | Chevaline | decoys | radars | aluminized | Testing of the Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles, all eight (ten capable) fired from only one missile. Each line represents the path of a warhead which, were it live, would detonate with the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-style weapons. | | Peacekeeper | Hiroshima-style | Seasat | gravity anomalies | circular error probable | Trident II | Peacekeeper | Wikimedia Commons | Atmospheric reentry | M45 SLBM | M51 SLBM | Maneuverable reentry vehicle | Multiple Reentry vehicle | Nuclear warfare | Poseidon missile | START II | Categories | Nuclear weapons |
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