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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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The most powerful missile in the world is considered to be the RS-28 Sarmat missile, also known as Satan-2. It is a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile developed by Russia with the capability to carry multiple warheads and evade missile defense systems.
Is there a difference between a rocket and a missile?
missile is also a rocket but the difference is that, it hold explosive for mass destruction. a rocket is just use to propelling vehicle like in satellites etc. missiles are self guided by the help of inertial navigation system.
To answer your question, we have to know what sort of missiles you are talking about. In a nutshell, the missile has it's warhead (also known as a "payload"), it's homing device (depending on whether it is active, passive, or semi-active), it's computer (used to determine when it will explode and if it is a directionally charged warhead, at what angle it will detonate), it's fuel, and synchro's and servo's for it's "wings". In a passive missile, the missile relies on reflected RF (radio frequencies) from a third party source off of the target which gets reflected to the missile. From the reflection of the RF off of the target, the missile knows where the target is and it's computer will adjust it's fins (wings) to accommodate it's flight path. In an active missile, the missile uses it's own RF emitted from the nose cone to locate that target. Think of it as a dolphin trying to find fish in the ocean. It's like sonar, on crack. Some missiles have "point detonation" while others have various other forms. The most common for anti-ship missiles and "bunker busters" is a delayed detonation. This allows the missile time to go through any barriers and detonate from the inside out. That is why they are so effective. For anti-aircraft missiles, they are usually "shaped directional" warheads which means that once the missile is within a certain proximity of the aircraft, the computer directs its charge in the direction of the aircraft. So, if the missile is on a flight path to fly underneath the aircraft, it will detonate its warhead upwards. Shaped means that the actual explosion has a deliberate shape to it, usually in a cone form, with the cone expanding towards the target. Missiles of this nature rely on shrapnel damage as opposed to the concussive blast generated by the warhead itself. I hope that answers your question.
Missiles have a guidance system, a "brain" (computer), telemetry gear, warhead (or payload), fuel, and fins.
They are either active, semi-active, or passive. Active means that they send out their own RF (radio frequency) trying to identify the target. Think of it as a dolphin trying to find a fish using echolocation. It's the same principle. The reflected RF is returned to the missile and its computer adjusts its current course accordingly to the target.
A semi-active missile has a third party source transmitting RF towards the target and the reflection is returned to the missile.
A passive missile uses RF emissions from the target as it's homing. Essentially, the target itself is telling the missile where it is.
What is the speed of a stinger missile?
A Stinger missile has a speed of around Mach 2.2, which is roughly 2,685 km/h or 1,670 mph.
An aeronautical engineer is the general name given to someone who designs the aircrafts. They develop a model that is based on the design brief and the capabilities of the aircraft.
How many missile expansions are in Metroid prime?
You can hold up to a maximum of 250 missles. There are 49 missle expansions, unless you count the first missle pack then there are 50.
How do you destroy predator missile in mw3?
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In Gamecube Lego Star Wars the video game how does jango fett shoot missiles?
In the original LEGO Star Wars, he can't, but in The Original trilogy, you must buy Bounty Hunter Rockets. then why did he shoot them when you battle him?
When was the cruise missile invented?
In the 1200s to 1400s, China has been using unguided missiles in warfare, making them the first to use the self-propelled missile. The missile they used today has (normally) the same amount of power as, an example, AIM-9 Sidewinder.
The movie war games why did they computerize the missiles?
Human operators were proven to be unreliable. In tests, 22% of the human missile silo officers either froze up or refused to launch when they believed that they might possibly kill 20 million people with a flick of a switch.
What is the rank requirement for direct fire antitank rockets and missiles?
what is the rso rank requirement for direct fire antitank rockets and missiles
What is the part of a rocket called that falls off at blastoff?
Usually nothing deliberately falls off a rocket right at liftoff. However most rockets are attached to the launchpad by metal tie down brackets, when the engines have reached full power explosive bolts separate the rocket from these brackets allowing it to leave the launchpad.
Multistage rockets allow expended boosters and/or stages to fall off, but this does not happen at liftoff, it typically happens several minutes after liftoff.
The LGM-30 Minuteman is a US land based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It is the first solid fuel instant response ballistic missile in the US arsenal, meaning it could be launched instantly at any time (unlike the liquid fueled ballistic missiles already in use when it was originally made that took 30 minutes or longer to fill with liquid fuel and oxidizer before they could be launched). It has three rocket stages and carried nuclear warhead(s).
President Kennedy decided in early 1962 that we would field 1000 Minuteman missiles (an overwhelmingly large force considering that the previous Titan liquid fueled ICBM was only fielded 52 missiles) in clusters of underground silos, due to political pressure based on the incorrect perception that there was a "missile gap" where the USSR was believed to have more ICBMs than we did (Kennedy knew from CIA spy photos they did not but could not reveal this information to refute the "missile gap")
It came in three different versions over time:
- 1962 (Minuteman-I) carrying a single W56 thermonuclear warhead having a 1.2 megaton yield
- 1965 (Minuteman-II) carrying a single W56 thermonuclear warhead having a 1.2 megaton yield
- 1970 (Minuteman-III) carrying three W62 thermonuclear warheads each having a 170 kiloton yield
The first Minuteman-I installation based at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, MT was almost ready at the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis and was rushed to completion in case it was necessary to attack the USSR at that time. This frantic rush was found later to have produced so many errors that the entire facility had to be completely redone and it is questionable if it could have even been used had the Cuban Missile Crisis turned the cold war into a hot war.
Later on the Minuteman-III the three W62 warheads were replaced with three W78 warheads each having a 335-350 kiloton yield then with a single W87 warhead having a 300 kiloton yield. The single W87 warhead itself was eventually improved to have a 475 kiloton yield.
An airpath is a path of a missile or aircraft through the air.
How did the U.S find out about Russian nuclear missiles being sent to cuba in 1962?
you need to work hard to find out
That's a rocket with two stages- when the first stage (or section) runs out of fuel, it separates from the top half (second stage) and falls away, leaving that second stage to fire up, and drive the rocket higher.
What was the nickname of the missile defense system also known as SDI?
SDI - the Strategic Defense Initiative - was a program involving shooting down incoming missile before they could reach their targets. Because for intercontinental ballistic missiles this would have taken place above most of the atmosphere, it was immediately given the derogatory nickname "Star Wars."
