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LGM-118 Peacekeeper

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1511:[Due to the limitation of the SALT II treaty, which the United States did not ratify, but followed, the maximum number of MIRV MBRS warheads was limited to 10. However, the weight of the warhead was greater than the original version, so the range of the missile was limited, similar to the Minuteman III missiles with a warhead Mk-12A and the range was not sufficient to cover the southernmost targets in the Soviet Union. The range with ten warheads was 9,600 km, which could be solved by removing one warhead. Despite proposals in this direction, this did not happen, and the LGM-118 Peacekkeper rocket was used with 10 x Mk-21 all the time. Individual warheads could be aimed at very distant targets, and the distance to the target could exceed 100 km.] 1041: 845:" (AIRS). AIRS would have a drift rate of only 1.5 x 10 degrees per hour, allowing it to be periodically referenced to an external point, like the silo wall, and then left for extended periods of time. Over the period of the flight the drift would be so low that any inaccuracies in the platform would account for a maximum of 1% of the warhead's final accuracy–the rest would be due to issues like the timing of the firing of the rocket engines, minor differences in warhead construction, and unavoidable randomness in the atmosphere. The Air Force also contracted with 769:
country to launch an attack on civilian targets, an attack that was both morally reprehensible as well as against stated policy. This worrying scenario led to the effort to develop a new ICBM with the accuracy needed to be an excellent counterforce weapon, the survivability needed to absorb a Soviet first strike, and the MIRV capabilities needed to ensure even a small number of survivors would be able to attack the remaining Soviet missile fleet. The Minuteman III simply did not have this combination of features.
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MX was originally intended to solve, providing high survivability. This would later be addressed through the re-introduction of the "rail garrison" concept, with twenty-five trains each carrying two missiles. This system was expected to be operational in 1992. The supposed counterforce gap, then being widely talked about on television, also resulted in the schedule for silo deployment being moved up, dropping the production time from 44 months to 29.
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positioned, this would keep the explosions at least 5,000 feet (1,500 m) away from the silos; it was believed that silos able to withstand multi-megaton explosions at one mile could be built, although this was an area of some uncertainty. This system had the advantage that the basing would be immune to changes in the accuracy or speed of the attack, only enormous increases in yield could overcome this physical barrier.
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nuclear attack, carry a large number of warheads so the survivors would still inflict massive damage, and be able to rapidly re-target so they could be aimed at only those missiles the Soviets had not yet fired. Over its development through the 1970s, MX emerged as a highly accurate, rapid-firing, and quickly retargeted system. Ultimately, the only problem that was never completely solved was the issue of basing.
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nebyl dostatecný k pokrytí nejižnejších cílu v Sovetském svazu. Dolet s deseti hlavicemi byl 9600km, což bylo možno vyrešit sejmutím jedné hlavice. I pres návrhy v tomto smeru k tomu nedošlo a celou dobu raketa LGM-118 Peacekkeper sloužila s 10 x Mk-21. Jednotlivé hlavice mohly být na znacne odlehlé cíle a odstup cílu mohl presáhnout 100km.
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effects of mechanical shocks and jarring that it would not require any other form of "fixing" in flight. This was in contrast to the stellar-inertial systems under development by the Navy and others. It would retain its accuracy even through the rough conditions during re-entry, allowing the creation of maneuvering reentry vehicles.
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Commemorating the system's retirement, the last piece of the final 10-warhead MX was trucked away from the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Since the United States began fielding the MX in 1986, a 32,600-square-kilometer missile complex there has served as home for all 50 deployed MX missiles, also known as Peacekeepers.
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enough to destroy the silos from the point between them, 900 feet (270 m) from either silo. To attack the dense pack, separate warheads would have to be aimed at each silo. When one of the attacking warheads exploded, the blast wave and dirt thrown into the air would destroy any nearby warheads.
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In July 1976, Congress refused to fund MX using a silo-based system on grounds of vulnerability, and the project was halted. Several new proposals were made for alternate basing arrangements, including mobile basing in railway cars that would be sent out into the nation's rail network during times of
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did not have the accuracy to attack Soviet silos and thus offered little counterforce capability. In some ways this helped the Air Force, as it meant they could concentrate on the counterforce scenarios, knowing that a countervalue attack would always be available from the Navy. However, improvements
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Finally, they also considered conventional missiles in "super hard" silos, buried under the southern side of mountains. As the enemy warheads would approach at a fairly shallow angle from the north, they would strike the north side of the mountains before they could hit the silos themselves. Properly
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stealth and mobility would maintain a countervalue force under any possible scenario. This threatened the Air Force's supremacy in the nuclear warfighting arena. Even in the case of a counterforce attack, their bombers would take hours to complete their missions, during which the Soviets could launch
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The first prototype AIRS, by then known more generically as the Inertial Measurement Unit, or IMU, was delivered in May 1986, 203 days late. It was not until July 1987 that the first production AIRS were ready to ship, and the complete supply for the first 50 missiles was not complete until December
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The new ICBM was originally planned to be called "Peacemaker", but at the last minute was officially designated the LGM-118A Peacekeeper. It was first test fired on 17 June 1983, by the Air Force Systems Command Ballistic Missile Office (Norton AFB, CA), 6595th Missile Test Group (Vandenberg AFB, CA
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silos, removing those now outdated missiles from service. The silos would be modified for much greater strength, and a number of Minuteman III silos similarly adapted over time to bring the force to a total of 100 missiles. Additionally, he suggested funding development of three additional concepts,
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a limited counterforce attack, it would be desirable to wait until the individual targeted silos were determined, determine which Soviet missiles had not been launched, and then launch only the targeted missiles against their unlaunched Soviet counterparts. This would require extremely tight timing.
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meant that commanders would have almost instant warning of a Soviet launch, with ample time to plan a response. However, it would not be until much later in the sequence of events that land-based radars would be able to track the incoming individual warheads and determine the targets. In the case of
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In such a situation, the US would be left with two uncomfortable options. If they chose to respond in kind and attack the remaining Soviet missile fleet, there would be little to respond with if the Soviets immediately launched against US cities. The other option would require the US to be the first
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attack. Although the system did not include the ability to be rapidly retargeted, this capability was under development and started deployment in 1972, before the planned 1975 introduction date of WS-120A. When it was fully deployed in 1978, the entire ICBM fleet could be entirely reprogrammed in 10
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with a limited number of warheads aimed at the Minuteman silos or control bunkers could cripple the US ICBM fleet. At the time, the Soviets were only capable of mounting a limited attack. With the limited accuracy of Soviet missiles, only an attack with a small number of missiles carrying very large
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Soviet missiles were known to have very low accuracy, far too low to directly attack US missile silos. They did have the combination of accuracy and power to attack the US bomber bases. Although it would be very difficult to arrange, there was the possibility that a combination of missile attacks on
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Z duvodu omezení smlouvou SALT II, kterou sice Spojené státy neratifikovaly, ale dodržovaly byl maximální pocet hlavic MIRV MBRS omezen na 10. presto ovšem byla hmotnost hlavice vetší, než puvodní verze, proto došlo k omezení doletu rakety podobne jako u raket Minuteman III s hlavicí Mk-12A a dolet
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A compromise was eventually developed in mid-1983. Under this scheme, 100 missiles would be deployed in existing Minuteman silos to "show national will". The plan also called for the removal of the old and accident-prone liquid fueled Titan II from use. However, this did not address the problem the
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By this time both the US and USSR were beginning to field third-generation SLBMs with greatly improved accuracy. These now arguably had all of the capability of the land-based ICBMs, and were equally able to carry out the counterforce mission. Additionally, the submarines could maneuver much closer
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Delivered 6 April 1983, the report suggested deploying 100 MX in existing Minuteman silos as a "demonstration of national will", but in other ways basically suggested eliminating both MX and Minuteman and replacing them with a small single-warhead mobile ICBM. On 10 August, the Secretary of Defense
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theory" was highly criticized due to the expected relative ease with which the Soviets could modify their warheads and circumvent this design. All that was required was that several warheads arrive and be detonated within a few milliseconds of each other, so the blast waves did not reach each other
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pushed the initial operational date back from 1983 to 1985 and opened a study on the possibility of developing a single missile for both ICBM and SLBM use. A six-month study in 1977 proposed a "Low-Altitude Defense" (LoAD) system using small anti-ballistic missiles at missile fields, similar to the
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In 1971, the Air Force started a requirements development process combining the ICBM-X and SABRE concepts into a single platform, "Missile, Experimental", or MX. The new missile would have enough accuracy and warhead payload that even a few survivors would be able to destroy enormous numbers of any
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They proposed 100 missiles in three bases of 30 missiles each. They expected that at least one base would be able to survive even an all-out attack. However, if such a force of approximately 30 missiles was going to be a reasonable deterrent, each missile would need to carry 20 or more warheads. To
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Studies on the underlying concept started in the 1960s. The idea was to allow the US to absorb a sneak attack by the USSR with enough warheads surviving to attack the remaining Soviet missile silos. To do so, the missiles had to be highly accurate, be based in such a way that enough would survive a
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On Sept. 19, the United States retired the most powerful and, arguably, the most controversial ICBM in the US arsenal, the MX, after nearly two decades of service. But the missile's various components could see a return to duty as the Pentagon contemplates its future missile options and missions.
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suits. The Air Force also admitted that 11 of the 29 missiles deployed were not operational. A Congressional report stated that "Northrop was behind schedule before it even started" and noted that the Air Force knew as early as 1985 that there were "serious system deficiencies as well as a lack of
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Test Range in the Pacific. The first eight test flights were launched from an above ground canister on TP-01, with the remaining test and operational Strategic Air Command flights from silos (LF-02, −05, & -08) all located on North Vandenberg AFB. A total of 50 flight tests were accomplished.
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in re-fitted Minuteman silos. However, the AIRS was not yet ready and the missiles were deployed with non-operational guidance units. AIRS had 19,000 parts and some of these required as many as 11,000 testing steps. Bogged down in paperwork due to government procurement policies, managers started
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Footnote 8: Most notably, we excluded the MX Peacekeeper ICBM deployed diuring the 1996 and 2003 periods in study. As a weapon optimized to hit targets in the former Soviet Union, the MX Peacekeeper has a relatively limited range of 9,600 km. Combined with a deployymeny location in southeastern
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This extra hardness can be offset by minor increases in warhead accuracy. The key to dense pack concept was to space the silos close together, about 1,800 feet (550 m). This was far enough apart that a single warhead could not destroy more than one silo; no conceivable warhead was powerful
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In spite of a lack of official interest, during the late 1960s Kenneth Fertig managed to arrange some funding through the Air Force for the "SABRE" INS project, short for "Self-Aligning Boost and RE-entry". The name referred to the concept that the system would be so accurate and free from the
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put it, "Our gross national product, though large, is limited. If we attempted to develop and procure a dozen or more distinct different nuclear delivery systems… we doubtless would end up squandering our resources and not doing a good job on any of them." Golden Arrow, along with many similar
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By the mid-1960s, the missile had become the main US strategic weapon. This led to concerns about various warfighting scenarios, especially as the Soviets improved their missiles. In the event of a Soviet missile launch, the US faced the difficult decision of whether to fire their missiles
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The missiles were gradually retired, with 17 withdrawn during 2003, leaving 29 missiles on alert at the beginning of 2004, and only 10 by the beginning of 2005. The last Peacekeeper was removed from alert on 19 September 2005 during the final deactivation ceremony when the
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treaty, under which ICBMs were allowed to carry only a single warhead each. Because the Minuteman could carry a single warhead for far less money, the United States agreed to remove the Peacekeeper from their nuclear force in this treaty. Despite the US withdrawal from the
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warheads (multi-megaton range) was feasible. They had just enough of these to make a damaging, but not decisive, attack on the US ICBM fleet. This scenario was of deep concern to the Air Force as it became ever more dependent on Minuteman for most strategic missions.
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aircraft. During periods of heightened tensions, they would be flown to practically any airport and set up. The Soviets would have to target thousands of airports, runways and even dirt strips and long stretches of highway to attack the fleet.
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in SLBM accuracy might allow them to handle counterforce as well, and render the entire land-based ICBM fleet superfluous. The Air Force was not interested in handing the strategic role to the Navy. A survivable ICBM would address this issue.
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silos, a temporary measure until final basing was decided. The first flight test took place in 1983, which included the successful launch of six inert re-entry vehicles, each hitting pre-planned targets. It was the first US ICBM to use a
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effective progress". They complained that the Air Force should have come clean and simply pushed back the deployment date, but instead, in order to foster the illusion of progress, the missiles were deployed in a non-operational state.
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rejected mobile basing due to high costs and slow reaction times due to the need to set up the launcher. On 24 October 1974 the airmobile concept was tested by SAMSO by dropping a Minuteman I from a C-5A cargo aircraft. In November, the
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and the US did not respond immediately, the majority of their missiles and strategic bombers might be caught on the ground. A credible deterrent force would remain, but such a force might not have enough warheads left to attack
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The project had already cost around $ 20 billion up to 1998 and produced 114 missiles, at $ 400 million for each operational missile. The "flyaway" cost of each warhead was estimated at 20 to 70 million dollars.
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systems upset the nuclear equation dramatically. These weapons were essentially invulnerable when at sea, and offered a credible countervalue force, primarily against civilian targets as early models like the
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weapon. The Air Force relied on its crewed bombers as the primary weapon for attacking hardened targets and saw the ICBM as a survivable deterrent that would guard against an attack on its bomber fleet.
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and the subsequent Russian withdrawal from the START II on 14 June 2002, the last Peacekeeper missile was deactivated on 19 September 2005. Their advanced W87 warheads were moved to the Minuteman III.
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to their targets, greatly reducing the warning time, potentially to the point that the command structure would not have time to launch their ICBMs and bombers before the warheads were reaching them.
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US bomber bases combined with bomber attacks on the missile bases would leave the US at a disadvantage. The survivability of the missile fleet became increasingly important, especially after the
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Up to 11 Avco Mk21 re-entry vehicles each carrying a 300 kt W87-0 warhead (though in practice, only 10 were carried); or 12 Avco Mk12A re-entry vehicles each carrying a 335–350 kt
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doctrine). Even if the Soviets attacked only the bombers, the US would be left with no counterforce approach, as both the Navy and Air Force missiles could only attack large targets.
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Heginbotham, Eric; Nixon, Michael; Morgan, Forrest E.; Heim, Jacob L.; Hagen, Jeff; et al. (2015). "CHAPTER TWELVE Scorecard 10: U.S. and Chinese Strategic Nuclear Stability".
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The Scowcroft Commission, which was formed to solve the problem of our "window of vulnerability" with regard to land-based missiles, has solved it by declaring it doesn't exist.
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before completing destruction of the silo. Such timing could be easily achieved by launching all of the warheads from a single missile. Congress again rejected the system.
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study to consider many of these issues. As part of this program, they proposed a smaller version of ICBM-X with 10 to 20 warheads. Known initially as WS-120A and later as
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aircraft provided a survivable capability to remotely control and launch the Peacekeeper ICBM in the event the underground Launch Control Centers were unable to do so.
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for a backup design using mechanical gimbals, the "Advanced Stable Platform" (ASP). In May 1975 the first hand-built AIRS was transferred from Draper's laboratory to
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On 22 November 1982, Reagan announced that the system would be deployed in new silos in what was then known as "Closely Spaced Basing", but later better known as "
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and various ICBM projects. In 1964, the Air Force contracted them to consider a wide variety of survivable ICBM approaches, under the name "Golden Arrow".
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However, like Golden Arrow before it, WS-120A's advantages found themselves being diluted by the new Minuteman III. The Minuteman III used the new NS-20
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launch them, the study introduced the "ICBM-X", a massive new 156-inch (400 cm) diameter design, well over twice the diameter of the existing
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bypassing official channels and buying replacement parts wherever they could be found, including claims that some of the parts were sourced at
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during the early days of the development of their ICBM force. In 1960 a number of TRW and other engineers involved in the ICBM program formed
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was inactivated as well. During the ceremony an Under Secretary of the Air Force credited the Peacekeeper with helping to end the Cold War.
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ordered initial production in 1979 but was overturned by Congress. After considerable debate about the system, in October 1982, President
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fluid. The so-called "flimbal" (apparently for "FLoated Measurement BAL") would offer unprecedented accuracy and would be free from "
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took office, Laxalt's close ties with Reagan proved useful. Reagan canceled the new shelter system in 1981, calling it "a
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immediately or wait to determine the targets of the Soviet missiles. Firing early might mean striking civilian targets (
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Similar improvements to Soviet missiles, real or imagined, led to US officials proposing a worrying scenario; a Soviet
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Whether or not this problem actually existed is open to debate. The Minuteman had a relatively fast launch time, and
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The system was equipped with an inertial navigation system that provided it warheads with an accuracy of 90 m CEP.
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scheme". On 2 October 1981 he proposed deploying an initial force of missiles in the approximately 60 existing
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Kitts, Kenneth (30 January 2006). "The Politics of Armageddon: The Scowcroft Commission and the MX Missile".
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Additionally, the plan also called for the development of an entirely new missile, which would emerge as the
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Development of the rail garrison system was carried out in parallel. However, budgetary constraints and the
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The operational missile was first manufactured in February 1984 and was deployed in December 1986 to the
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Test Pad-01, traveling 4,200 nautical miles (4,800 mi; 7,800 km) to strike successfully in the
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remaining Soviet force. The specifications for MX were fixed in February 1972, the program office at the
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has a rail garrison box car on display, and developmental remnants of the program can still be found at
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on the rail network of the United States. The railcars were intended, in case of increased threat of
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The U.S.-China Military Scorecard: Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996–2017
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The project considered road, rail, submarine and air-launched weapons. One of these suggested an
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their remaining missiles. The Air Force could not let this stand, and following the advice of
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area; although opposition increased dramatically following a statement of disapproval by the
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To address the survivability issue, a huge series of concepts and studies followed. In 1973,
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Congress Rejects MX Dense Pack Deployment: Prelude to the Strategic Policy Decisions of 1983
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Initial development began in 1971, with full-scale development starting in 1974. President
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In overall terms, the most important conclusion of the Scowcroft Commission was that the "
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using old Peacekeeper components. As of 2020, seven Minotaur IV flights have been made.
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announced that 50 of the newly named Peacekeepers would be put into service in existing
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Echos That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956–1983
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to lead a Commission on Strategic Forces, better known as the Scowcroft Commission.
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Any of the "Golden Arrow" concepts would be extremely expensive, and in the era of
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in 1986. At this time, the United States and the Soviet Union were negotiating the
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missiles. Parts of the missile Roll Control System (RoCS) were reused during the
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Presidential Commissions & National Security: The Politics of Damage Control
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heightened threat levels, and more complex systems of deeply buried silos under
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proposals from other firms, proceeded no further, in favor of the Minuteman II.
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Approximately 15,000 miles per hour (Mach 20; 24,000 km/h) at burnout
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airborne drops from cargo aircraft, an "active defense" using short-range
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that would include systems to quickly dig themselves out after an attack.
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The Peacekeeper rockets were converted to the satellite launcher role by
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system, to increase survivability. This was developed into the abortive
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Inventing Accuracy: a historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance
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Wyoming, it is unable to strike Chinese nuclear counterforce targets.
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Reagan responded to this setback by appointing Lieutenant General
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the remaining Soviet fleet and cities and other military targets.
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Seize the High Ground: The U.S. Army in Space and Missile Defense
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from 1985 to 2005. The missile could carry up to twelve Mark 21
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400th Strategic Missile Squadron (later 400th Missile Squadron)
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meant the system was unable to attack hardened targets like
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1988. Given these delays, and increased performance of the
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Eventually, the program was reinstated on 12 June 1979 by
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States
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For MX, the Draper Laboratory developed SABRE into the "
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The Air Force had depended on engineering support from
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The MX Basing Debate: The Reagan Plan and Alternatives
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Walker, James; Bernstein, Lewis; Lang, Sharon (2005).
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in Wyoming and began development of what became the
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Index

MX missile
MX missiles

1st Strategic Aerospace Division
Vandenberg AFB, CA
USAF
Intercontinental ballistic missile
United States Air Force
Boeing
Martin Marietta
TRW
W78
Three-stage
solid-fuel rocket
Thiokol
Aerojet General
Hercules
Rocketdyne
liquid-propellant rocket
hypergolic fuel
mi
mi
Inertial
AIRS
CEP
MIRV
intercontinental ballistic missile
United States
reentry vehicles
kiloton

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