Search results

The W87 is an American thermonuclear missile warhead formerly deployed on the LGM-118A Peacekeeper ("MX") ICBM. 50 MX missiles were built, each carrying...

to cost money. There's no question about that." In March 2019, the W87 Mod 1 (W87-1) thermonuclear warhead was selected for GBSD, replacing the W78 warhead...

they have had only a single warhead per missile, either a W78 (335 kT) or W87 (300 kT). By the 1970s, 1,000 Minuteman missiles were deployed. This force...

treaties limited its actual payload to ten), each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead. Initial plans called for building and deploying 100 MX ICBMs, but...

battalion level. An 81 mm version called the W87 was also developed for export markets. Type 87: basic model 82 mm. W87: 81mm caliber model for export. The Type...

overall effectiveness. The smaller power of the warheads used (W62, W78 and W87) was offset by increasing the accuracy of the system, allowing it to attack...

howitzer; 1978), B83 (modern strategic bomb; 1979), and W87 (LGM-118 Peacekeeper/MX ICBM; 1982). The W87 and the B83 are the only LLNL designs still in the...

warhead was not removed from service until March 2010. This leaves the W78 and W87 warheads as the only warheads carried by Minuteman III. Downloading of the...

kilometers (6,800 mi). Two warheads were developed for the missile: the W87-1 warhead in a Mark 21 re-entry vehicle with a yield of 475 kt (1,990 TJ)...

weapons modernization programs to develop and produce new warheads such as W87-1 Mod and W88 Alt 370 and deploy as-yet-unproven directed-energy and space-based...

(cancelled 1980) W87 for LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM (1986–2005), LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM (2007–present), and LGM-35 Sentinel ICBM (future) W87-1 for MGM-134...

Munitions stored at the site include gravity bombs (B61 and B83), and W80 and W87 warheads. "Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex Birdseye". cryptome...

uranium or natural uranium jacket. This has been proposed specifically for the W87 warheads retrofitted to currently deployed LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBMs. In...

partially replaced by the W78 starting in December 1979, and fully replaced by W87 warheads removed from MX Peacekeeper missiles and retired in 2010. The concept...

Buzzwick Airport (FAA LID: W87) is a privately owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of...

Observatory 249 807 Cerro Tololo Obs.; Cerro Tololo Cerro Tololo-LCO 1 W85, W86, W87 CTIO-LCO; Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) node at CTIO Cerro Tololo-LCO B Chante-Perdrix...

2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018. Small Arms Survey 2014, p. 240. "QLZ-87 / W87 – Modern Firearms". modernfirearms.net. 28 October 2010. Archived from the...

than for a pure fission implosion weapon or for a strategic warhead like a W87 or W88. All the nuclear weapon design innovations discussed in this article...

Warheads ICBM (total) 450 550 Minuteman III W78/Mk12A 250 350 Minuteman III W87/Mk21 200 200 SLBM (total) 288 1,152 UGM-133A Trident II D-5 W76-0/Mk4 288...

5% Kel-F 800 7.5% High-velocity, insensitive; nuclear weapons (B83, W84, W87, W89) PBX 9007 RDX 90% Polystyrene 9.1%; DOP 0.5%; rosin 0.4% PBX 9010 RDX...