LGM-118 Peacekeeper
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The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, originally known as the MX for "Missile, Experimental", was a MIRV-capable intercontinental ballistic missile produced and deployed by the United States from 1986 to 2005. The
Test launch of a Peacekeeper ICBM by the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division (1 STRAD), Vandenberg AFB, CA (USAF)
Mk12A re-entry vehicles on a Peacekeeper MIRV bus. Each carries a 335 kt W78 warhead with about 20 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.
Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere
Time exposure shot of testing of the Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll, all eight fired from one missile.
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
LGM-118 Peacekeeper
…The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, originally known as the MX for "Missile, Experimental", was a MIRV-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced and deployed by the United States from 1986 to 2005. The missile could carry up to eleven…
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.