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    The W87 is an American thermonuclear missile warhead formerly deployed on the LGM-118A Peacekeeper ("MX") ICBM. 50 MX missiles were built, each carrying...
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    to cost money. There's no question about that.” In March 2019, the W87 Mod 1 (W87-1) thermonuclear warhead was selected for GBSD, replacing the W78 warhead...
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    overall effectiveness. The smaller power of the warheads used (W62, W78 and W87) was offset by increasing the accuracy of the system, allowing it to attack...
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    battalion level. An 81 mm version called the W87 was also developed for export markets. Type 87: basic model 82 mm. W87: 81mm caliber model for export. The Type...
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    warhead was not removed from service until March 2010. This leaves the W78 and W87 warheads as the only warheads carried by Minuteman III. Downloading of the...
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    warhead due to the warhead limitations in New START. Beginning in 2005, Mk-21/W87 RVs from the deactivated Peacekeeper missile were replaced on the Minuteman...
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    partially replaced by the W78 starting in December 1979, and fully replaced by W87 warheads removed from MX Peacekeeper missiles and retired in 2010. The concept...
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  • Observatory 249 807 Cerro Tololo Obs.; Cerro Tololo Cerro Tololo-LCO 1 W85, W86, W87 CTIO-LCO; Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) node at CTIO Cerro Tololo-LCO B Chante-Perdrix...
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    treaties limited its actual payload to 10), each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead. Initial plans called for building and deploying 100 MX ICBMs, but...
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  • and producing new and modernized warheads, including the B61-12, W80-4, W87-1 Mod, and W88 Alt 370; deploying a new, nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise...
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