Currently under development - would have highest payload of any ICBM ever - reportedly up to 10 tons. Liquid-fueled, which is unusual to me. I don't think we have any more liquid-fueled ICBMs. Too much maintenance, not nearly as stable as solid-fueled rockets. But our largest ICBM ever, the Titan II (made by Martin Co.) was liquid-fueled. They were taken out of service back in the 80s.
Titan II:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II
The Russians have always made it a point to build things bigger than we do - airplanes, submarines, and nukes.
RS-28 Sarmat:
https://www.rt.com/news/363981-russian-icbm-sarmat-missile/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat
Comparison of world ICBMs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ICBMs
Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, at 50MT yield (a 100MT max yield was actually possible; it was reduced in the interest of reducing fallout):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
I've always been fascinated by nuclear weapons - the physics, the chemistry of the nuclear explosives themselves, as well as the systems that have been invented to deliver the weapons.
Let's try to keep politics out of this - I think this can be a great discussion, and I wouldn't want it to get shut down.
I know we have quite a few chemists, physicists, scientists, etc. here - I'd love to hear their comments and thoughts. Everything I've read and seen indicates that the Manhattan Project was a project of almost insurmountable difficulty, and that it was flat-out incredible that they achieved success, way back in the '40s.
Anybody here work in the USAF's missile forces?
Titan II:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II
The Russians have always made it a point to build things bigger than we do - airplanes, submarines, and nukes.
RS-28 Sarmat:
https://www.rt.com/news/363981-russian-icbm-sarmat-missile/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat
Comparison of world ICBMs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ICBMs
Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, at 50MT yield (a 100MT max yield was actually possible; it was reduced in the interest of reducing fallout):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
I've always been fascinated by nuclear weapons - the physics, the chemistry of the nuclear explosives themselves, as well as the systems that have been invented to deliver the weapons.
Let's try to keep politics out of this - I think this can be a great discussion, and I wouldn't want it to get shut down.
I know we have quite a few chemists, physicists, scientists, etc. here - I'd love to hear their comments and thoughts. Everything I've read and seen indicates that the Manhattan Project was a project of almost insurmountable difficulty, and that it was flat-out incredible that they achieved success, way back in the '40s.
Anybody here work in the USAF's missile forces?