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Intercontinental ballistic missile - eNotes.com Reference
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to this it is the ■Taimur (7,000km, Under development)
An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is a long-range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) ballistic missile typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery, that is, delivering one or more nuclear warheads. Due to their great range and firepower, in an all-out nuclear war, land-based ICBMs and submarines would carry most of the destructive force, with nuclear-armed bombers having the remainder.
ICBMs are differentiated by having greater range and speed than other ballistic missiles: intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs), short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs)—these shorter range ballistic missiles are known collectively as theatre ballistic missiles. Categorizing missiles by range is necessarily subjective[clarification needed] and the boundaries are chosen somewhat arbitrarily.
While the warheads of theater ballistic missiles are often conventional, ICBMs are nearly inseparable from their connection with nuclear warheads. 'Nuclear ICBM' is seen as a redundant term. Strategic planning avoids the concept of a conventionally tipped ICBM, mainly because any ICBM launch threatens many countries and they are expected to react under a worst-case assumption that it is a nuclear attack. This threat of ICBMs to deliver such a lethal blow so rapidly to targets across the globe has resulted in the interesting fact that there has never been any end-to-end test of a nuclear-armed ICBM.
With the advent of MIRVs in 1970, deployed in Minuteman ICBMs and Posidon SLBMs,[1] the warhead from a single missile had the capability to split up and strike several different targets.
ICBMs by country
Soviet Union / Russia
Specific types of Soviet ICBMs include:
■R7 Semyorka / 8K71 / SS-6 Sapwood: Rocket first used to launch Sputnik 1 in October 1957. Derivatives are still in use today, primarily as the Soyuz rocket for manned Soyuz and Progress spacecraft launches to the International Space Station
■R-16 SS-7 Saddler
■R-9 Desna / SS-8 Sasin
■R-36 SS-9 Scarp
■R-36M2 Voevoda / SS-18 Satan
■UR-100 8K84 / SS-11 Sego
■MR-UR-100 Sotka / 15A15/ SS-17 Spanker
■UR-100N 15A30 / SS-19 Stiletto
■RT-2 8K98 / SS-13 Savage
■RT-23 Molodets / SS-24 Scalpel
■RT-2PM Topol / 15Zh58 / SS-25 Sickle
■RT-2UTTKh Topol M / SS-27
■RS-24: MIRV-equipped. Expected to service in December 2009.
United States
■Atlas (SM-65, CGM-16): Former ICBM launched from silo, the rocket was modified and used in 1962-1963 for four manned Mercury-Atlas flights, and was used, along with the Agena or Centaur upper stages, as a medium-lift satellite and interplanetary probe launcher for NASA and the USAF. Original design, with "balloon tanks" and "1.5 staging," has since been retired and replaced with the Atlas V, which has an internal structure similar to the Titan ICBM, but using conventional propellants.
■Titan I (SM-68, HGM-25A): Based in underground launch complexes. Used LOX/RP-1 propellants like Atlas, but stored in conventional tanks.
■Titan II (SM-68B, LGM-25C): Former hypergolic-fueled ICBM launched from silo, the rocket was used in 1965-1966 for ten manned Gemini flights and its two-stage core was modified into the heavy-lifting Titan III and Titan IV rockets. All Titan II, III, and IV models have since been retired.
■Minuteman I (SM-80, LGM-30A/B, HSM-80)
■Minuteman II (LGM-30F)
■Minuteman III (LGM-30G): launched from silo—as of May 2009, there are 450 Minuteman III missiles in active inventory
■LGM-118 Peacekeeper / MX (LGM-118A): silo-based; decommissioned in May 2006
■Midgetman: prototype only and has never been operational—launched from mobile launcher
■Trident (UGM-93A/B) SLBM: Trident II (D5) was first deployed in 1990 and is planned to be deployed past 2020 (11,300 kilometres (7,000 mi) range).
People's Republic of China
Specific types of Chinese ICBMs called Dong Feng ("East Wind").
■DF-4 (CSS-3): silo based and semimobile, 5,550–7,000 km range.
■DF-5 (CSS-4) (1981–present): silo based, 12,000 km range.
■DF-5A (CSS-4) (16 December 1986 – present): silo based, 15,000+ km range.
■DF-31 (CSS-9): silo and road mobile, 7,200+ km range.
■Railroad-based DF-31: railroad mobile, 7,200+ km range.
■DF-31A (CSS-9 Mod-2): silo and road mobile, MIRV equipped, 11,200+ km range.
■JL-2 (CSS-NX-4): SSBN-based, ~8000 km range.
■DF-41 (CSS-X-10): silo and road mobile, MIRV equipped (up to 10), under development, 15,000+ km range.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom only deploys United States-constructed, submarine-launched ICBMs. The UK contributes towards the development of the U.S.-constructed missiles which it uses.
■Trident II (D5): SLBM currently used by the Royal Navy and planned to be deployed until the 2050s.
France
France only deploys submarine launched ICBMs, with all land based ones decommissioned
■M45: In service.
■M51.1: Expected to enter service in 2010.
■M51.2: Expected to enter service in 2015.
Israel
■Jericho II: capable of sending a one ton nuclear payload 5,000 kilometers.[14] capable of being modified to carry one nuclear warhead that is no heavier than 500 kg over 7,800 km.[15]
■Jericho III: believed to have a range of up to 11,500 km with 1–1.3 ton payload.[16] Entered service in 2008.
Under development
North Korea
North Korea currently does not have any ICBM in its inventory.
■Taepodong-2 (4,000–9,000 km range, failed test in 2006)
India
India currently does not have any ICBM in its inventory.
■Agni V[17]
■Agni V SLBM[17]
■Surya-I
■Surya-II
PakistanPakistan currently does not have any ICBM in its inventory.
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Taimur (7,000km, Under development)[18]
Sea-based ICBMs
Trident missile launch at sea from a Royal Navy Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine■ The U.S. Navy currently has 18 Ohio-class SSBNs deployed, of which 14 are armed with 24 Trident II SLBMs each, for a total of 288 Trident II missiles equipped with 1152 MIRV nuclear warheads.
■ The Russian Navy currently has 12 SSBNs deployed, including 5 Delta III class submarines, 6 Delta IV class submarines and 1 Typhoon class submarine. Missiles include R-29R SLBMs and R-29RMU Sineva SLBMs with MIRV warheads for a total of 181 missiles equipped with 639 nuclear warheads. The Borei class SSBNs and Bulava SLBMs are under development.
■ The United Kingdom's Royal Navy has four Vanguard class SSBNs, each armed with 16 Trident II SLBMs with MIRV warheads for a total of 64 Trident II missiles and 185 nuclear warheads.
■ The French Navy has four le Triomphant class SSBNs each armed with 16 M45s SLBMs with TN75 MIRV nuclear warheads. The M45 SLBMs are scheduled to be upgraded to M51 SLBMs around 2010.
■ The People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Navy has two Type 094 SSBNs each armed with 12 JL-2 SLBMs.
