intercontinental ballistic missile launchers

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• Intercontinental ballistic missile — An intercontinental ballistic missile, or 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… …   Wikipedia

• Ballistic missile — Diagram of V 2, the first ballistic missile. A ballistic missile is a missile that follows a sub orbital ballistic flightpath with the objective of delivering one or more warheads to a predetermined target. The missile is only guided during the… …   Wikipedia

• Intermediate-range ballistic missile — An intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000 5,500 km (1,865 3,420 miles), between a medium range ballistic missile and an intercontinental ballistic missile. Classifying ballistic missiles by range… …   Wikipedia

• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty — ▪ international treaty in full  Treaty on the Limitation of Anti Ballistic Missile Systems         arms control treaty ratified in 1972 between the United States and the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) to limit deployment of… …   Universalium

• Missile — For other uses, see Missile (disambiguation). A V 2 missile launch by the British during Operation Backfire. Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self propelled guided weapon system.… …   Wikipedia

• Missile launch facility — The cupola of an underground R 12U launching facility in Plokštinės missile base, Lithuania …   Wikipedia

• Missile silo — A missile silo is an underground, vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). They typically have the missile some distance under the surface, protected by a large blast door on top …   Wikipedia

• National missile defense — This article is about systems to shield an entire country. For the ground based US missile defense system, see Ground Based Midcourse Defense. A Payload Launch Vehicle (PLV) carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle is launched from Meck… …   Wikipedia

• Integrated Guided Missile Development Program — An Agni II during the Republic Day Parade in 2004 The Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) was an Indian Ministry of Defence program between the early 1980s and 2007 for the development of a comprehensive range of missiles,… …   Wikipedia

• Nag (missile) — See also: Integrated Guided Missile Development Program#Nag missile system Nag Nag missile with the NAMICA in the background. Picture taken during DEFEXPO 2008 …   Wikipedia

• Maitri (missile) — The Maitri missile project is a next generation Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) with a lethal hundred per cent kill probability. It is a short range (15km,9.3mi) surface to air point defense missile system. It should not be confused …   Wikipedia