- Air Force
- Marines
- Army
- Navy
Small Arms
- Machine Guns
- Hand Guns
- Grenades
- Shotguns
Naval Ships
- Submarines
- Transport
- Carriers
- Attack
Aerial
- Helicopters
- Airplanes
- Missiles
Snipers
- Weapons
- Mission
Vehicles
- Light Assault
- Transport
- Tanks
Nuclear
- NORAD
- Policy
Missiles & Bombs
|
The Trident II is a submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM's). It is a three stage, solid propellant, inertially guided FBM with a range of more than 4,000 nautical miles. All three stages of the Trident II are made of lighter, stronger, stiffer graphite epoxy than the Trident I. The missile's range is increased by the aerospike, a telescoping outward extension that reduces frontal drag by about 50 percent. Trident II missiles are launched by the pressure of expanding gas within the launch tube. When the missile attains sufficient distance from the submarine, the first stage motor ignites, the aerospike extends and the boost stage begins. Within about two minutes, after the third stage motor kicks in, the missile is traveling in excess of 20,000 feet per second. |
|
The Minuteman missile is a strategic weapon system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range. The Missiles are dispersed in hardened silos to protect against attack and connected to an underground launch control center through a system of hardened cables. Launch crews, consisting of two officers, perform around-the-clock alert in the launch control center. A variety of communication systems provide the National Command Authority with highly reliable, virtually instantaneous direct contact with each launch crew. Should command capability be lost between the launch control center and remote missile launch facilities, specially configured EC-135 airborne launch control center aircraft automatically assume command and control of the isolated missile or missiles and execute the orders. |
|
The AGM-86B and C air launched cruise missiles were developed to increase the effectiveness of B-52 bombers. The small, winged AGM-86B is powered by a turbofan jet engine that propels it at sustained subsonic speeds. After launch, the missile's folded wings, tail surfaces and engine inlet deploy. It then is able to fly complicated routes to a target through the use of a terrain contour matching guidance system, which compares surface characteristics with maps of the planned flight route stored in on-board computers to determine the missile's location. |
|
The Patriot missile is a long range, all altitude, and all weather surface launched air defense missile. It has been fielded to defeat advanced aircraft, tactical ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles. Patriot missiles are capable of engaging multiple, simultaneous targets in advanced electronic countermeasure conditions and is interoperable with Hawk and other air defense systems. The Patriot Fire Unit consists of a radar, launchers, missiles, and command/control and communication centers. The radar is a multifunction C-band phased array radar, which performs all the functions of surveillance, target detection, tracking, and missile guidance support. |
|
The Harpoon is the only anti-ship missile in the United States inventory which can be launched from ships, submarines, aircraft, and land. The Harpoon is currently used by the Navy and Air Force. The guidance section consists of an active radar seeker and radome, missile guidance unit, radar altimeter and antennas, and power converter. The warhead section consists of a target penetrating, load carrying steel structure containing 215 pounds of high explosive, and a safe-and-arm/contact fuze assembly. |
|
The AGM-88 HARM (high speed antiradiation missile) is an air to surface tactical missile designed to seek and destroy enemy radar equipped air defense systems. The proportional guidance system that homes in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missile nose. A smokeless, solid propellant, dual thrust rocket motor propels the missile. The F-16C is the only aircraft in the current inventory to use the AGM-88. |
|
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a supersonic, heat seeking, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft. It has a high explosive warhead and an active infrared guidance system. The AIM-9 has a cylindrical body with a roll stabilizing rear wing/rolleron assembly and detachable, double delta control surfaces behind the nose that improve the missile's maneuverability. |
