Chevaline
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Chevaline was a system to improve the penetrability of the warheads used by the British Polaris nuclear weapons system. Devised as an answer to the improved Soviet anti-ballistic missile defences arou
Chevaline at RAF Cosford
A British Polaris missile at the Imperial War Museum, London
A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target. The concept is al
Chevaline
…because they could achieve the same ends simply by throwing additional warheads, which was becoming increasingly inexpensive with the introduction of MIRVs. With MIRV, a single missile could launch multiple warheads that separated in space, forcing the defender to use multiple ABMs to attack them. A single…
The MIRV U.S. Peacekeeper missile, with the re-entry vehicles highlighted in red.
Technicians secure a number of Mk12A re-entry vehicles on a Peacekeeper MIRV bus.
LGM-118A Peacekeeper MIRV at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Cut away diagram of a MIRV.