Encyclopedia entry: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Article: CIA forecasts Russia will test and field new ICBM, SLBM this ...
Defense Daily;  September 29, 1992 ;     700+ words ...* Russia is expected to flight test and deploy two new ballistic missiles--an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and a sea-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) this decade, Dr. Lawrence Gershwin, national intelligence officer ...

Article: TRW, Inc., Defense Systems Group, Ballistic ...
Defense Daily;  October 1, 1992 ;     548 words ...* TRW, Inc., Defense Systems Group, Ballistic Missiles Div., Redondo Beach, Calif., $38 million ... continuous engineering/technical support for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Weapon System Engineering Program. the ...

Article: NUNN-LUGAR ELIMINATES FINAL RUSSIAN SS-24 INTERCONTINENTAL ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... elimination of all SS-24 "scalpel" intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and supporting components. The ... strategic nuclear warheads deactivated, 682 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) destroyed, 496 ICBM silos eliminated ...

Article: Putin hails test launches of Russian intercontinental ...
AP Worldstream;  December 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Wednesday on successful test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, saying they would bolster the nation ... and also conducted a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a Northern Fleet nuclear submarine ...

Article: Iran eyes 'the high ground: Tehran moves closer to joining the ...
The Middle East;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... could be one of 18 BM25 ballistic missiles Tehran reportedly purchased ... breakthrough in developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The rockets ... potential targets for its ballistic missiles as well as improve guidance ...

Article: Russia successfully launches intercontinental ...
Vietnamese News Agency;  October 12, 2008 ;     455 words ...Hanoi, October 12 (VNA) - Russia on October 12 successfully test-fired three intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), including a Topol RS-12M missile, news agencies reported. The Topol RS-12M was launched from the Plesetsk space ...

Article: Iran's great leap: the February launch of an experimental ...
The Middle East;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... breakthrough in Tehran's drive to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). That, some analysts suspect ... as those required to develop long-range ballistic missiles," according to US missile specialist Peter ...