LGM-118 MX Peacekeeper ICBM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- The LGM-118A Peacekeeper, initially known as the "MX missile" (for Missile-eXperimental), was a land-based ICBM deployed by the United States starting in 1986. A total of 50 missiles were deployed.
This missile was President Reagan's baby. Under the terms of the START treaty, each side was allowed to develop and deploy one new system each. We came up with the MX, which Reagan re-named The Peacekeeper. It was only deployed for a short time, then scrapped under an enhanced treaty with the USSR. It was a beautiful weapon. Powerful, accurate, and deadly.
Agree with you. A beautiful weapon. Was totally fascinated by it when seeing a documentary about it many years ago. Good to see there are guys like you out there and I am not the only one liking it. Should never have been taken out of service!
Two hundreds Peacekeepers ICBMs, each transported on mobile erector wagon in buried trenches, completed by three thousands monowarhead Midgetmen SICBMs deployed on trucks, could have replaced the old Minutemen.
The MX was designed to take out silos, and was more than accurate enough to carry out the task; the SS-18 was not so accurate, so it had to make up for this by carrying higher-yield warheads (including the single-warhead mod of 25mt).
The SS-18 HAD to have a much greater throw weight since its warheads were much heavier than the more advanced (and much lighter) American ones.
How do you know those 25 megaton warheads weren’t weapons of genocide aimed at our cities? You can tell a Russian is lying because his lips are moving. Never bargain away our security for a piece of paper
Thanks for posting
Really very few documentary about the legendary MX ICBM, this one is good!
the inertial guiding sphere at 4:34 looks sooo high-tech and alien.. wow. In USSR they would NEVER show such thing on camera LOL
I just completed a scale model of Peacekeeper and a few other missiles. Super interesting document!
This footage is magnificent.
I'm surprised those extendable nozzles were used. Seems like a whole new class of risk for the reward of a silo-based missile being a meter shorter in length.
It still amazes me that one missile could completely destroy ten cites, but yet we still can not get to Mars.
We have sent SUV-sized nuclear powered robotic rovers to Mars several times though.
We could already be on mars. Two reasons we aren’t. The political will and appropriate funding
Sub-orbital lob. The tough part is the precision and reliability.
Is this part of a documentary or larger file? I'd love to see more footage on this.
A bit late to respond here, but no its a USAF film
We need to put these back into service again, with a full compliment of MIRVs.
The Peacekeepers are severely out dated and the sites don't exist anymore except for the museum with an intact missile and silo. The New START treaty has prevented our military from building anymore silo's or warheads, they actually had to destroy a lot of the missiles as an agreement with Russia but one thing i can't figure out is that all this time Russia has disregarded the treaty and they have been building more weapons... I think that the treaty was just Russia's way of getting our military to get rid of our weapons so they can do an attack at some point and there'd be no way our country can retaliate.
@@josephbennett3482 China (our real threat) is building them like crazy and putting them in train cars.
@@josephbennett3482 Exactly. You cannot trust the Russians with Putin in charge.
it was removed from production and deployment due to the START II. It was signed by United States President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 3 January 1993, banning the use of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Hence, it is often cited as the De-MIRV-ing Agreement.
50 LFs were already deployed at F.E. Warren AFB with them. They didn't start deactivating them until the early 2000s, October 2005 was the final shutdown date roughly.
And global war criminal ChiComs, and Ruskies are back to using MIRVs on land based. Also, Bernard Swartzsteinberggolden sold USA down the river in those days for a few shekels from, China. He ran conglomerate who sold the IBM guidance design, rocket motor designs and various other top secret USA advantages. Giving China decades of advancements. As part of a protected class he basically got off scott free.
Russians were able to have their first solid fuel Ballistic Missile in service, in Jan-2013. i.e. just 34 years after U.S.
It's not that it was said and repeated in the 1980s. EVEN the modern Soviet SLBMs as SS-N-6, 8, 18 and 20 were liquid fuel propelled ?
@@maxmorando4852 Liquid propelled have greater throw weight, but comes with maintenance problems, fuel cannot be stored with the missile. So, fuel up ---> fire, which isn't the case with solid propellent.
Lived next to the engine test facility and the earth would shake as the test occurred several miles away at Aerojet.
For the most part the American Arsenal is built around the
B61( 340kTY), W87( 375kTY) , W80(150kTY), W88(400kTY), B83(1.9MTY)series weapons.
All use internal guidance( Terrain mapping/Inertial Nav) or non-sat External(Star tracking& Inertial Nav).
And regardless of strike. we all lose. that's the part you can't seem to get through all of this.
let me break it down for you, in small bites so you can process and hopefully understand.
Hmm, do think you mean Trident II D-5?
It has a circle of equal probability (cep) of 90-120 m, quite good.
A SS-27 Topol-M has a CEP of 200m, not as good, but still the best Russian CEP.
But a Trident 475 kt (us) 100kt (eng) warhead that explode within 90 from a Russian target will do the job as good as a 250/800 kt SS-27 warhead.
Dont mather if you hit the target in the ass or 200 m away, If you hit a city with a Trident or a Topol it still wastland after that.
This is NOT OK. 12-warhead MIRV? OMFG… And the music?!? “It’s the end of the world! Let’s crack a cold one and enjoy some BBQ!”
Insane, wonder how many would fail somewhere between launch and re-entry.
@Zeksteve The families of the Challenger crew would disagree.
@mrwxyz101 Part of it's name was taken from Strategic Air Command's motto, "Peace through strength."
I try to do a "Cold Launch" with Cola and Mentos :)
Yes that's what I meant to write.
Very good reason for that, Trident D4 is the most acurate SLBM in the world so its going to put that 300mt's right ontop of whatever its aimed at, and 300mt landing on your head will deal with just about anything, no need to burn the whole country or city with multi megaton weapons when you have a precision first strike missile. plus the number of penetration aids in addition to those warheads is whats going to make it dangerous
It is Trident C4, or Trident II ( D5 ), I believe.
No country has ever built a 1000 MT warhead; the largest (which is on the SS-18) is 25 MT.
Some versions of precedent heavy Soviet ICBMs could have be equipped with a 50 megatons warhead.
If what was left of that first stage when it detached fell and hit your house that would kind of suck.
Yes, true, Overall, the Russian missile technology is a generation before US.
Polaris keeps the peace.
Don't you mean Trident?
What velocity are the warheads when they explode?
Hey, E W search for 'the effect of a nuclear attack on the rio grande valley' it's an interesting step by step description of the ICBM process from launch to impact
@@MrWolfTickets just read that paper. Amazing level of destruction and painful deaths. It is a testament to the genius of some people, that these systems can be designed, that work from beginning to end in a tiny fraction of a second.
What you said was not 100% accurate.
Iraq had a fully fielded chemical weapons capability prior to the 1st Gulf War. These are the weapons which were used against the Kurds.
Iraq also had a nuclear weapons program, which was attacked by the Israeli’s during Operation Opera in 1981.
It appears that both the chemical and nuclear programs were either dismantled or in a residual form prior to the 2nd Gulf War.
I had always assumed that extendable nozzles had never been used before. Huh.
Mandela effect bro
the US Navy doesn't even know where the SSBN's are when they are deployed, what makes you think that a Russian SSN is going to be able to find them? (PS, there's NOT a chance in hell they know where they are at)
Nice
And who told you that, the Kremlin? If an akulla can track an Ohio class, then our Virginia or seawolf class can CERTAINLY track an akulla.
MX was targeted against silos, not cities.
They could be targeted at anything. Could even switch targets mid flight.
Never heard of that. I know they warheads had eight pre-selected targets programmed into them, and that they could be quickly changed while still in the silo, but once it's aloft, there would be no actual way to change the targets.
@@jpowell180 I think you're right. .
then why do the Ohio SSBN's deploy, why when they are in port in Kings Bay and Bangor are they guarded with "shoot to kill" orders by US Marines? Also, the US has 239 D5's with 1104 warheads(as of 2012).. (under the new START treaty) IF they aren't MIRV warheads then how is it carrying that many?
So, the total butcher's Bill for world war three at the high end would be 936,125,000 people, you, me, and most who read this included.
The remaining places that were left would deal with 3-4 years of crop failure, and bioshpere collapse.
so, from someone who had a key to the end of the world in their hand at one point, please, quit yammering about how much better either set of warheads, or delivery systems are.
If they are used, we all die for it.
I'm curious why they went with cold launch
+NOVA to simulate the stress it would have to go through because in an nuclear strike they would only have 6 minutes to prepare and these were designed to fire in 1 minute hence the minutemen silos hidden in arizona and colorado
+NOVA Cold launch is much much easier on the launch tube, allowing it to be reused with minimal refurbishing after a test.
@@drainscholar There are no Minuteman silos in Arizona. Never were, But there were Titin II silos.
i have read some of your posts and they make no sense. Posts on the internet don't show sarcasm. So are you saying that Russia had better technological weapons than the USA???
ironic peacekeeper=nuclear missle
«The force is the only stable base of the peace» (President Gerald Ford, 1974-1976)
«The true security reside in an absolute nuclear superiority.» (General Thomas Power, Commander in Chief of Strategic Air Command, 1958-1964)
8 feet in diameter....
neato
Biggest oxymoron in the history of man
It was never used in war, thus it kept the peace.
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There i no such thing as S-500. S-400 has still it's interceptor missile under testing. Let alone S-500.
It's the advancements in manufacturing and refined application, and they really don't care about treaties other than trying to bind US policy up as much as they can in following through
I see talking to you is about as fruitful as talking to a wall.
I violated rule of the internet number 14: By responding to trollbait in an online forum or chatroom, the troller automatically gains victory regardless of the level of maturity of the bait or subsequent responses to said bait.
This, Advanced Solid Motor Rocket, X-33 cancellation were biggest mistakes by USA.
Why have music in the background for a film about something that is made to kill millions?
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Scary times in 2021 with China flexing its muscles 🤬
Not just china , Russia has been disobeying the Treaty that they signed.
@@josephbennett3482 Welp, this comment aged well. Putin just put his military in "high nuclear alert".
@@nissan300zxmike Putin only did it because he's losing the battle that he started and he knows that he as the US on his doorstep now along with our allies one our biggest allies is right next door to him Israel , Israel can't stand him and the are our biggest ally and they are ready to fight Putin if he threatens the US.
I love how it's all about propulsion. Not one comment about how large the MIRV fallout would be (hint, hundreds of miles.) one of these missiles could wipe out the entire megalopolis of Washington, D.C. To boston (including New York.) I'm glad they scrapped these missiles.
trident 2 missiles can have 14 MIRV warheads, so yea... And they are still in service