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    The W87 is an American thermonuclear missile warhead formerly deployed on the LGM-118A Peacekeeper ("MX") ICBM. 50 MX missiles were built, each carrying...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Cerro Tololo-LCO A W86 Cerro Tololo-LCO B, at #807 Co Cerro Tololo-LCO B W87 Cerro Tololo-LCO C, at #807 Co Cerro Tololo-LCO C W88 Slooh (Slooh.com) Co...
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    warhead due to the warhead limitations in New START. Beginning in 2005, Mk-21/W87 RVs from the deactivated Peacekeeper missile were replaced on the Minuteman...
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    (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...
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    treaties limited its actual payload to 10), each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead. Initial plans called for building and deploying 100 MX ICBMs, but...
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    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)...
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  • and producing new and modernized warheads, including the B61-12, W80-4, W87-1 Mod, and W88 Alt 370; deploying a new, nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise...
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  • Munitions stored at the site include gravity bombs (B61 and B83), and W80 and W87 warheads. "Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex Birdseye". cryptome...
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    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...
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    uranium or natural uranium jacket. This has been proposed specifically for the W87 warheads retrofitted to currently deployed LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBMs. In...
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    2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018. Small Arms Survey 2014, p. 240. "QLZ-87 / W87 – Modern Firearms". modernfirearms.net. 28 October 2010. Archived from the...
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    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...
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    W87/Mk21 warheads for the Minuteman III ICBMs deployed in Warren AFB's 150 missile silos. In the future, if Congress agrees to fund it, the new W87-1...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    of these may be in a MIRVed Trident II missile; treaty limited to eight. W87 warhead 300 1,300 Ten of these were in a MIRVed LGM-118A Peacekeeper. W88...
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    Land Weapon Type Warhead Number of warheads Delivery LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM W78 / W87 400 Ground silo...
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    howitzers Mortars: M120 120 mm M30 107 mm mortars 250 M29 81 mm mortars FM 81 mm W87 81mm M-60 60 mm Type 63-1 60mm M224 60 mm mortars Anti-Air: 16 2x37mm Type...
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    fire-resistant pits, but it is unknown if it is in use or only experimental. The W87 warhead is an example of a FRP-employing assembly. FRP does not, however...
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    grenades "35x32mm Type 87 - Weaponsystems.net". weaponsystems.net. "QLZ-87 / W87 - Modern Firearms". modernfirearms.net. 28 October 2010. "QLB-06 / QLZ-87B"...
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    Mortars: M-120 120 mm, M30 107 mm mortars, 250 M29 81 mm mortars, FM 81 mm, W87 81 mm, M-224 60 mm mortars AA artillery: 16 2×37 mm Type 65, 80 2×20 mm Oerlikon...
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  • MO-3 81mm mortar Mortar  Indonesia MO-3 Type 87 81mm mortar Mortar  China W87 81 KRH 71 Y 81mm mortar Mortar  Finland 81 KRH 71 Y Also known as Mortir...
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  • than for a pure fission implosion weapon or for a strategic warhead like a W87 or W88. Cohen's neutron bomb is not mentioned in the unclassified manual...
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