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Hello, and welcome to my Famous Engineering web page. In this page, I will talk about Inter-Continental Ballistic Missles one of the most destructive inventions of our time.

Inter-Continental Ballistic Missles
(ICBM's)

The United States currently has 550 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), in two types, armed with a total of 2000 warheads. Operational ICBMs are maintained on continuous alert, and crews frequently exercise the entire launch procedure with the exception of actually firing the missiles. All units are certified through a rigorous training and inspection process at least every 18 months.

MX/Peacekeeper

Fifty operational MX/Peacekeeper missiles are based at Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Wyoming. Each missile carries ten W87 warheads. All missiles are scheduled to be retired under the START II treaty. However, the 500 W87 warheads will be retained and either transferred onto all or some of the Minuteman III missiles or kept in store as part of the reserve or "hedge" kept in case the US decides it needs to redeploy them. A new U.S.-Russian agreement has delayed retirement of the missile by six years until 2007.

Minuteman III

Five hundred Minuteman III missiles are operational. Two hundred missiles are based Malmstrom AFB, Montana, 150 missiles are at Warren AFB, Wyoming, and another 150 missiles are based at Minot AFB, North Dakota. Each missile is armed with three warheads for a total of 1500 warheads, comprised of 900 W78 and 600 W62 warheads.

Under the START II treaty, each Minuteman III missile will be downloaded from three to one warhead.

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