Peace Through Superior Firepower/Other Ballistic and Cruise Missiles: Difference between revisions

The 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty led to the destruction of all ground launched missiles with a range of 300-3400300–3400 miles (500-5500 500–5500 km), for both the US and USSR.

A short range (201 miles/303  km maximum) missile, direct descendant of the V2. Could carry a conventional warhead or 3.75 Mt nuclear one. Used for the first US live nuclear missile tests (with atomic detonation) and then used as a suborbital launch vehicle- it put the first US astronaut into space for all of five minutes. Considering that Vostok 1 had just done a full-earth orbit, this was a positively poor response.

An Army missile rather than an Air Force one, this was a road-mobile missile with a range of 460 miles (740  km). Most of these were deployed to [[West Germany]], where they were kept ready to launch within minutes of an order. Deployed from 1960-1970, when the missiles were upgraded to...

=== PGM-17 Thor''' ===

The first operational MRBM (many sources designate this an IRBM, but its range was only 2,400  km) in US service, 60 these missiles were deployed to the UK under Project Emily, where they were placed under dual USAF-RAF control. As part of the deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, they were withdrawn from the UK, but continued in an anti-satellite scheme based in the Pacific until the early 1970s.