Word: launcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crucial to congressional endorsement was the Scowcroft Commission report released in April. The panel recommended the deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos, implying that the ten-warhead launcher is a necessary lever in arms negotiations with the Soviets. But the commission linked MX development to arms control and proposed the deployment of smaller, mobile, single-warhead Midgetman missiles in the 1990s that would be less vulnerable to attack...
...would probably carry a 500-kiloton punch, in contrast to MX's ten warheads, each with a 330-kiloton, independently targeted payload. Some Pentagon experts contend that a design breakthrough will permit the small missile to be moved about on a heavily armored vehicle dubbed the Armadillo. This launcher would be anchored when firing and be stable enough to handle the missile's blast-off force, yet light enough to be transported by helicopters...
...liquid fuel cannot be stored in a missile and the fueling process is slow. All U.S. missiles use solid fuel. The SS-20's range is long, up to 3,000 miles, and it is mobile, which makes it harder to find and destroy. Each has its own launcher, and Western intelligence experts suspect there is room for a second reload missile inside; the launcher runs under its own power on tank treads or tires. The missile is MIRVed, carrying three 150-kiloton warheads, each with its programmed target. The SS-20 is a replacement for the antiquated...
...Instead, the compromise on which he and Kvitsinsky agreed called for Moscow, most significantly, to shrink the European SS-20 force from 240 to 75. In return, the U.S. and NATO would cancel the deployment of the Pershing II and cut the number of planned Tomahawk cruise-missile launchers from 116 to 75. Each SS-20 carries three warheads, while each cruise-missile launcher holds four Tomahawks. Thus, the U.S. would have been left with a one-third numerical advantage in intermediate-range land-based European warheads...
...been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...