MRV, MIRV, MARV, and FOBS Projects

[moin1900]

Hi everybody

Chevaline MRV and Polaris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaline
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/polaris.htm

Poseidon and Trident with 14 MIRVs
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/slbm/c-3.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/trident.htm

ICBM-X with 20 MIRVs or more ?
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4860.0/highlight,icbm-x.html
ANY DRAWINGS ? Pictures, etc ?

R-36MUTTH with 38 warheads
http://russianforces.org/blog/2006/08/multiple_as_in_up_to_38_warhea.shtml
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-18_Satan
http://www.palba.cz/viewtopic.php?t=1860
ANY DRAWINGS ? Pictures, etc ?

Are there any other such crazy projects ?

Pershing II with MARV
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/pershing.htm

TOPOL-M with MARV
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2832.0.html

OGCH FOBS
http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?
http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/ogch.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/ogch.htm
http://www.palba.cz/viewtopic.php?t=1859

N11GR with six FOBS warheads
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/n1.htm

Are there any other Missle Projects with more than 14 MRV ?
Are there any other Missle Projects with more than 14 MIRVS ?

Many greetings and THANKS in advance

 

[Morgoth Bauglir]

There was a project to equip the Trident I D-4 with 8 MARVs, the RVs would have been the Mk.500 Evader. Don't know the yield though. I'll post the source as soon as I've located the book in question.

 

[bobbymike]

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/15/science/new-generation-of-warheads-just-around-the-bend.html?smid=tw-share

WASHINGTON THE United States is about to enter a new age of missile technology in which nuclear warheads will be designed to maneuver in flight, either to dodge enemy defenses or to home in on a target with unparalleled accuracy.

The first such maneuvering warheads are expected to be deployed on the Pershing 2 intermediate-range missiles, which are at the center of the current Soviet-American negotiations over medium-range missiles in Europe. The Reagan Administration is offering to forego plans to deploy 572 new Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe if the Russians dismantle 540 missiles in Eastern Europe and Asia.

If the new American warheads work as well as the proponents expect, which is not yet certain, they will make the Pershing 2 the most accurate missile of its range ever produced. And other research projects are under way to develop advanced maneuvering warheads for possible use on a range of intercontinental and submarine-launched missiles.

 

[sferrin]

These days there are lots of missiles with MARVs (though none in the US).

 

[Maury Markowitz]

WS-120A/BGM-75 was a "smaller" version of ICBM-X with "10 to 20" warheads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-75_AICBM

 

[bobbymike]

WS-120A/BGM-75 was a "smaller" version of ICBM-X with "10 to 20" warheads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-75_AICBM

My understanding was the WS-120A was to be a large solid rocket and weigh about 400,000 pounds, over twice as big as MX ended up.

Although with the STRAT-X study ICBMs up to 120" to 156" diameter and weighting much more so maybe a reference to one of these beasts.

I'd love for someone to write a book on large US ICBMs built and unbuilt.

 

[GWrecks]

Out of curiosity, how exactly do ICBMs carry something like 24 or 38 warheads?

Are they carrying two sets of 12 or 19 back-to-back or something?

 

[Grey Havoc]

The ICBM-X thread seems to have disappeared in some old server disaster, but I was able to find a single capture from December 2008 on the Wayback Machine:

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