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Missiles
Missiles are a self-propelled guided weapon system. Missiles have four system components: targeting and/or guidance, flight system, engine, and warhead. Missiles come in types adapted for different purposes: surface-to-surface and air-to-surface (ballistic, cruise, anti-ship, anti-tank), surface-to-air (anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic), air-to-air, and anti-satellite missiles.
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What is the price of Javelin anti-tank missile system?
@ 80000 for the missile @150000 for the launcher
How high do nuclear missiles go?
Nuclear missiles leave the earth's atmosphere for some time. Intercontinental missiles, for example require the missile to ascend to 1,000 feet to assure that it will reach it's intended target.
How many countries have tested nuclear missiles?
Rarely are missiles tested with actual nuclear warheads. It would be utter foolishness and very dangerous to do so before the missile was tested and proven reliable first. The warhead(s) are usually replaced with radio telemetry devices or a satellite, during development testing of the missile, to verify its performance and reliability. This makes it very easy to codevelop a peaceful rocket for launching spacecraft and a military ICBM in the same project, if you already have or are developing nuclear explosives.
Just think of the warheads the US could have put on Apollo Project type Saturn-IB boosters had we so chosen to use them as ICBMs!
What is the speed of an anti-tank missile?
An anti-tank missile is accelerating from the moment the rocket motor is ignited. That means it is going faster and faster at each moment until it strikes its target or runs out of fuel. Most missile systems possess this characteristic, that is, they don't have a cited "top speed" because of the variability of the speed reached based on the distance to target. In the case of just one missile system, the Javelin (and not the surface-to-air one), the missile has a 2,500 metre range, and can get easily achieve mach numbers at longer ranges within its designed reach.
What type of uranium is used for a nuclear missile?
In the past, highly enriched uranium (cca. 99 % uranium 235); but now nuclear weapons generally have plutonium.
What American president almost sent nuclear missiles to Russia during the Cold War?
The closest we came to a nuclear confrontation with Russia that I know of, was under John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Blockade in 1962.
Is there a difference between military rockets and military missiles?
a rocket is an unguided weapon while a missile is a optically/ wire guided/ radar/ heat tracking weapon which is designed for precision targeting.
ie:
rocket pod on an AH-64 (no guidance)
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Javelin missile ( Heat Tracking)
What distance can Intercontinental Ballistic Missile travel?
Ballistic missiles can reach up to 5000km Ballistic missiles can reach up to 5000km
How much uranium tons does a nuclear missile have?
A nuclear missile does not have that much weight, maybe only a few hundred pounds with not all of that being Uranium.
The force or energy of the bomb's explosion is measured in kilotons or megatons of TNT explosive energy.
One critical mass of Uranium-235 is ~100 pounds, one critical mass of Plutonium-239 is ~10 pounds. This varies significantly with configuration and type of reflector used. Bombs also typically contain ~100 pounds to over 1000 pounds of Uranium-238 as Tamper(s) and in fusion bomb radiation channel walls to guide x-rays between stages.
I cannot give exact figures as there are so many different warhead designs and details like that are classified Top Secret-Q.
What is a flak and how is it used?
For some reason the word flak was used during WWII as the name for the exploding shells fired from anti-aircraft guns. Catching some flak meant literally being under fire. Bullet proof vests are/were sometimes referred to as flak jackets, as similar types of equipment were once used to protect people from the fragments from the AA shells.
The action taken to stop the Soviets from sending missiles to Cuba was?
Initial action was a blockade: the USA placed a naval quarantine around Cuba to stop further weapons from being conveyed to the island.
Why did Russia put missiles in Cuba?
Russia sent missiles to Cuba because Cuba was already in a conflict where the U.S had attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro. Russia took advantage of Fidel's anger and sent the missiles to Cuba in which Cuba threatened to use them against the U.S
Who invented the first guided missile?
Louis Brennan (1852 -1932) From, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Inventor of the world's first guided missile - a torpedo like device which was used as an early coastal defence mechanism. Brennan also designed a monorail and helicopter.
Slapstick missile is a popular crossword puzzle clue that has been used in many newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Sun. The top three answers are pie, egg, and creampie. Slapstick missile refers to a pie or other food being thrown in the face of an 'unsuspecting' person during a slapstick comedy routine.
The general term aeronautical engineer might be applied to someone who designs any of those vehicles.
When did the us discover missiles in cuba?
U-2 reconnaissance overflights. In addition, RF-101s from shaw AFB confirmed the high altitude photos of the U-2s with low level photos.
In response to the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba what did President Kennedy do?
After giving a verbal warning, which was ignored, he mobilized the nation's military and sent them towards Cuba...nuclear armed. For those who aren't aware of it today; US orders with atomic weapons was always...FIRST STRIKE!
What are Self propelled aircraft with unpowered rotating horizontal blades?
Auto-gyros. (I edited the Question to as "What are" these.)
