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    The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, originally known as the MX for "Missile, Experimental", was a MIRV-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced...
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    members. The first LGM-118 Peacekeepers were deployed to Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that year. LGM-118 Peacekeeper test launches continued...
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    development of a railroad-based system for basing part of the planned LGM-118 Peacekeeper – originally referred to as MX for "Missile, Experimental" – intercontinental...
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    (later designated the LGM-118 Peacekeeper) to superhardened silos located at Warren AFB. In July 1984, construction began on Peacekeeper support facilities...
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  • crewed bomber. Second- and third-generation designs (such as the LGM-118 Peacekeeper) dramatically improved accuracy to the point where even the smallest...
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  • carrying a W87 warhead, the Peacekeeper was the most powerful ICBM deployed by the United States. Wings operating LGM-118 Peacekeeper Wings operating multiple...
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  • the peace The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, a land-based nuclear ICBM Peacekeeper Rail Garrison, a mobile missile system for the LGM-118 Peacekeeper Cadillac Gage...
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    statement for Congress, to deploy the MX missile dubbed "Peacekeeper" (later designated LGM-118 Peacekeeper) to superhardened silos located at Warren AFB. Capable...
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    highly accurate inertial navigation system designed for use in the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM, which was intended for precision nuclear strikes against Soviet...
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  • games LGM-1, a pulsar LGM-2, a star with anomalous variations in brightness LGM-25 Titan I ICBM LGM-25C Titan II ICBM LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM LGM-118 Peacekeeper...
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    Minotaur IV, also known as Peacekeeper SLV and OSP-2 PK is an active expendable launch system derived from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM. It is operated by...
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  • Minuteman ERCS LFK NG LGM-25 Titan LGM-25C Titan II LGM-30 Minuteman Minuteman I Minuteman II Minuteman III LGM-35 Sentinel LGM-118 Peacekeeper Lieying-60 SAM...
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    (retired, 10 or 14 warheads) UGM-96 Trident I (retired, 8 warheads) LGM-118 Peacekeeper (retired, 10 warheads) UGM-133 Trident II (active 8-12 warheads)...
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  • Minotaur VI is a proposed expendable launch system derived from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM. It is a member of the Minotaur rocket family and a higher-performance...
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    system derived from the Minotaur IV, itself a derivative of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, an intercontinental ballistic missile. It was developed by Orbital...
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  • immediately. Dense Pack was a proposed configuration strategy for basing LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBMs, developed under the Reagan administration, for the purpose...
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    option (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...
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    planners in the United States conceived the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison as a means of pairing LGM-118 Peacekeeper missiles with the mobility of a train. The...
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    Minuteman III and Peacekeeper variants. In 2001, the United States possessed 500 Minuteman III missiles (three warheads each) and 50 Peacekeeper missiles (ten...
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    mid-2030s. The LGM-118A Peacekeeper (MX) ICBM, which was to have replaced the Minuteman, was retired in 2005 as part of START II. A total of 450 LGM-30G missiles...
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  • Convair B-36 Peacemaker, a bomber aircraft An early name for the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, or MX Missile A cannon that exploded aboard the USS Princeton Peacemaker...
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  • OSP-2 Target Launch Vehicle, Peacekeeper TLV, or OSP-2 TLV was an American rocket concept derived from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper missile. It was a member of...
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    Bomber—Convair B-36—is called Peacemaker and one inter-continental missile-LGM-118-Peacekeeper. In 2016, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter envisaged that...
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  • since been retired. Minuteman I (SM-80, LGM-30A/B, HSM-80) Minuteman II (LGM-30F) LGM-118 Peacekeeper / MX (LGM-118A): silo-based, with rail basing tested;...
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    warheads. These missiles surpassed their western counterpart, the US LGM-118 Peacekeeper in terms of megatons delivered, range, and survivability, but were...
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    (155-mm 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...
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    from top left: PGM-17 Thor, LGM-25C Titan II, HGM-25A Titan I, Thor-Agena, LGM-30G Minuteman III, LGM-118 Peacekeeper, LGM-30A/B/F Minuteman I or II, PGM-19...
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    silos does not significantly increase. Both Soviet R-36M and US LGM-118 Peacekeeper missiles could carry up to 10 MIRVs though the latter are no longer...
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  • series of experimental equipment MX missile, usually referring to the LGM-118 Peacekeeper Maxwell (unit), measuring magnetic flux Murexide, an ammonium compound...
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    the XMGM-134A was a three-stage solid-fuelled missile. Like the LGM-118 Peacekeeper it used the cold launch system, in which gas pressure was used to...
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