What Is An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)?
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2022
- Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are a country’s nuclear weapon system. ICBMs have a minimum range of 3,100 miles (5,000 km).
The missiles are primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery.
The US Air Force approved the designation for the system that modernizes the ICBM.
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This video has everything except for the information what an ICBM actually is
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Thanks for saving 10 minutes of my life
Title : what is ICBM ?
Video : United States have blah blah blah
This is not fair
Americans think they invented everything 😂
Exactly my thoughts,stopped watching midway
@@Brian-qj4kk surely invented RUclips. You can click off that too lol
ICBM means Intercontinental Ballistic Measles
Wrong title of video, it should be
US ICBM Messiles system, bcoz entire video is only about USA.
Can we get a tutorial on how to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile any time soon? Thanks :D
Sit down anime kid
I wouldn't mind Atleast it'll release us fr this already dying rock we live on
0:15 this was bewildering!! 😁 Amazing.
“Seeing that mushroom cloud hits different” fuck yeah that bitch hit different lmao 🤣
No.
@@muscleguyphilippines your dad hit different
kek
I worked on the Minuteman III.
So did I. M55a1, sr19, psre.
Top Gs ⬆️
Real engineering on a budget
You should do a good video on the maintainers.
What if they want to make a bad video about it instead?
I thought this was supposed to be a video about ICBMs technology but I have reached half the video and so far I have only heard about this: united states, USA, america, united states and america. Oh, have you heard about united states?
We had the newer Peacekeepers but then retired them when the cold war ended believing them unnecessary. Why didn't they retire the older Minuteman and keep the newer Peacekeepers?
Ashes ashes we all fall down😮
for all my readers out there
aunch control center (LCC), in the United States, is the main control facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). A launch control center monitors and controls missile launch facilities. From a launch control center, the missile combat crew can monitor the complex, launch the missile, or relax in the living quarters (depending on the ICBM system). The LCC is designed to provide maximum protection for the missile combat crew and equipment vital to missile launch. Missile silos are common across the midwestern United States, and over 450 missiles remain in US Air Force (USAF) service.
Due to modern conventional weapons, missile launch control centers are becoming rarer in the US, and it is expected that the number of missiles will stay at 450 Minuteman III.
General information
All LCCs are dependent on a missile support base (MSB) for logistics support. For example, Minot AFB is the MSB for the 91st Missile Wing.
Three types of Minuteman LCCs exist:
Alternate Command Post (ACP): performed backup functions to missile support base; control missile wing communications
Squadron Command Post (SCP): perform backup functions to ACP; control squadron execution and communications
Primary LCC (PLCC): perform execution and rapid message processing
There are four configurations of the LCC, differing primarily in the amount and location of communications equipment. Functionally, there are three LCC designations. One Alternate Command Post (ACP) LCC is located within each Minuteman wing and serves as backup for the wing command post. Three Squadron Command Posts (SCPs) serve as command units for the remaining squadrons within the wing, and report directly to the wing command post. The ACP doubles as SCP for the squadron it is located within. The remainder of the LCCs (16) are classified as primary LCCs. Four primary LCCs are located within each squadron and report to their respective command post.
Titan II LCC
The Titan LCCs held four crew members: the Missile Combat Crew Commander (MCCC), the Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander (DMCCC), Ballistic Missile Analyst Technician (BMAT), and the Missile Facilities Technician (MFT).
Titan II had a three-story LCC dome. The first level was the crew's living area and contained a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and a small equipment area that housed an exhaust fan and a water heater. The second level was the launch control area and held the LCCFC (Launch Control Complex Facility Console, the main launch console), the ALOC (Alternate Launch Officer Console), the Control Monitor Group (monitored the missile), and several other pieces of equipment. The lowest level, level 3, held communications equipment, the two battery backup supplies, the sewage lift station, the motor-generator, and several other pieces of equipment.
There were two types of Titan II sites: standard, and ACP (alternate command post) sites. ACPs had all of the equipment that one would find on a standard site plus additional communication equipment.
A Minuteman wing consists of either three or four squadrons. Five flights comprise each squadron. Each flight directly controls ten Minuteman missiles remotely. Each flight is commanded from a Launch Control Center, or LCC.
The Minuteman LCC is an underground structure of reinforced concrete and steel of sufficient strength to withstand weapon effects. It contains equipment and a Missile combat crew of two officers capable of controlling, monitoring, and launching the 10 Minuteman missiles in unmanned launch facilities (LFs) within the flight. The Combat Crew monitors message traffic from higher headquarters to all the other four flights in its squadron, and has the ability to countermand launch attempts initiated by any other flight in its squadron.
One LCC in each Minuteman squadron is designated a Squadron Command Post and has the ability to take control of and remotely launch the Minuteman missiles of any other flight in its squadron, in the event of receipt of an authenticated Emergency War Order and the flight designated in the EWO fails to execute its ICBM fire mission contained therein. One of the wing's Squadron Command Posts is designated a Wing Command Post and can execute an authenticated EWO for any flight of Minuteman missiles in the wing. It can also countermand a launch attempt by any flight in any squadron in the wing.
The Minuteman Combat Crew has voice communications capability with all the LFs of the flight which it commands. Under ordinary circumstances this is almost always used to coordinate with maintenance crews on-site at an LF. If the maintenance crew is performing a site penetration (entry into the missile silo) communication with the Combat Crew will always be necessary in order to properly authenticate (prove who you are). Under extraordinary circumstances it may be necessary to communicate with a flight security squad that is dispatched to the LF, usually to investigate a perimeter security alarm.
Each Combat Crew has a voice circuit called the Hardened Voice Channel which links the five Combat Crews (LCCs) that comprise the squadron. There is also a voice circuit called the EWO (Emergency War Order) which links the squadron command posts (CPs). One of the squadron command posts (CPs) is also the wing CP. These two voice circuits work like a party line with all LCCs connected simultaneously. Thus, it is not possible for any of the Combat Crews to have private conversations. The term "EWO" used here is not to be confused with an actual Emergency War Order message from the National Command Authority. The same term is used to denote both this circuit and the message transmitted over the Primary Alert System.
Message traffic over the LF, HVC, and EWO voice circuits are transmitted via the Hardened Intersite Cable System.
Each Combat Crew also has access to commercial telephone lines for ordinary civilian communications.
The outer structure of the LCC itself is cylindrical with hemispherical ends. Its walls are of steel-reinforced concrete and approximately 4.5 feet thick. It is normally accessed from the LCF/MAF by a freight-size elevator. A blast door permits entry into the LCC from the tunnel junction (adjoining the LCC Equipment Building housing the backup diesel-electric generator and emergency supplies). An escape hatch 3-ft in diameter is located at the far end of the LCC. The escape hatch and associated tunnel are constructed to withstand weapon effects and allow personnel egress in the event of damage to the vertical access shaft. The tunnel is sand-filled and the sand will fall into the LCC if the hatch at the bottom of the tunnel is opened. Essential LCC launch equipment and communications gear, along with the missile combat crew, are located in a shock isolated compartment suspended within the outer structure. The room is steel and suspended as a pendulum by four shock isolators (see picture below).[1]
The LCC's electronics are fully shielded from Electromagnetic Pulse damage with carbon block surge arresters.
REACT-A LCCs
REACT-A capsules were brought online in the mid-1990s and continue in service with the 341st Missile Wing, the 90th Missile Wing, and the 91st Missile Wing. This was an upgrade from the ILCS (Improved Launch Control System) capsules at the 341 MW that date to the late 1970s, and from the CDB capsules at the 90th and 91st missile wings. This was a major upgrade. The two launch control officers now sit side by side and must turn four launch keys to initiate a launch.
The B/CDB capsules were upgraded to REACT-B in the mid-1990s and used only at the 321st Missile Wing at Grand Forks AFB, ND and the 564th Missile Squadron (the "odd squad") of the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB, MT until both were shut down. (19 August 1998 for the 564th, 30 September 1998 for the 321st.)
CDB LCCs
Command Data Buffer (CDB) was a configuration for early Minuteman missiles at the 90th Missile Wing at FE Warren AFB, WY, the 91st Missile Wing at Minot AFB, ND, and the 351st Missile Wing at Whiteman AFB, MO. The overall layout of the LCC did not change through the upgrade to REACT, however there were some major equipment changes.
Airborne Launch Control Centers
Airborne Launch Control Centers (ALCC) provide a survivable launch capability for the Minuteman force by utilizing the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) which is operated by an airborne missile combat crew.
From 1967 to 1998, the ALCC mission was performed by United States Air Force EC-135 command post aircraft. This included EC-135A, EC-135C, EC-135G, and EC-135L aircraft. Today, the ALCC mission is performed by airborne missileers from Air Force Global Strike Command's (AFGSC) 625th Strategic Operations Squadron (STOS) and United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Starting on October 1, 1998, the ALCS has been located on board the United States Navy's E-6B Mercury. The ALCS crew is integrated into the battle staff of the USSTRATCOM "Looking Glass" Airborne Command Post (ABNCP) and is on alert around-the-clock.
Launch control equipment building
The Launch Control Equipment Building (LCEB) is a hardened, below-ground capsule for support equipment such as air conditioners, diesel generators, etc. At Wing 1 (and the former Wing 2 setup at Ellsworth AFB) this equipment is above ground ("topside") in the MAF.
Missile Alert Facility
A Minuteman Missile Alert Facility (MAF), previously known as the Launch Control Facility (LCF), is the above-ground component. It is "soft" or not able to withstand nuclear explosions. It consists of a security control office, dining room, kitchen, sleeping areas for the security forces stationed there (and occasional maintenance troops), garages for various vehicles, and other facilities.
Netlink
As of 2006, all Minuteman LCCs were modified to handle the LCC Netlink upgrade. The Netlink system brought internet access underground for missile combat crews.[2]
Was this a promofilm for the US nuclear force?
As if we needed a promotional film for anything involving our military power.
i think these are very safe and just silly goofy pranks countries use to play pranks with in eachother.
Amazing video explanation
all i know its a well no counter bamboozeld chess move
There is zero excuse for ever using these terrible weapons EVER again. Frankly humans are far too primitive to possess such things. Its insanity that we allow such things
You are absolutely correct. But if a power who disagrees with you, sees no deterrent, they will use them. So, even though there is no good reason to *use* them, there is a reason to *have* them. If only so the other person will not use the ones that they have. It makes me sad, but it is the reality of the world we live in.
Allow these things???? We have to possess these weapons due to what our adversaries possess.
@@Inertia888 precisely what I thought, vice versa too, now that the US has "The Triad" and other countries don't, look at how easily US can interfere with other countries politics, agenda and do or command as they see fit.
I don’t disagree with you @paleo, but if the US bans them, then China and Russia will have them and we are unprotected, so we must have them too. The same ideology applies to all countries, we can’t ban them internationally so we need them to keep all countries in a mutual destruction agreement
@@Inertia888 Mutually Assured Destruction.
Humanity is overrated
With Metamaterials basically manipulating physics without breaking any laws, creating the least amount of drag to NONE due to a ""atomic bubble"" (figuratively speaking). Let alone the Metamaterials that can turn invisible to multiple spectrums including visible. Search for some MIT, NASA, PeerReview articles, etc. 😁
Or Fusion weapons which wouldn't leave radioactive waste behind. Fusion is easy making it produce "endless energy" is a little harder. But Helion Energy in Washington is doing a great start. Would love a video on them.
I just love how during this video you show Russian ICBMS and some Americans thought it was theres 😆 🤣 😂 😹
Man, that smile....
Well put in just said hes sending these
We should have had nuclear Hyper Sonic Glide vehicle a decade ago with the amount of money we spend. But it's not a new arms race it's just staying relevant. We have 50yr old missiles in our silos. We need updated systems
No... we don't need to..
We need more conventional weapons that doesn't rely on satellite systems....
Because after the nuclear war we would have a conventional alternative for once again dominate in the very name of sovereignty jurisdiction and patriotism flags... hmmmm
As Trump wanted to do.!
The USA army is too big and too costly by trying to control all of the world instead of defending its CORE / STRATEGIC interests. Now the money is spread too thin and corruption and greed make it ineffective with ineffective weapons that are put in the market with too many flaws instead of carefully upgrading. Also research, production and maintenance costs are way higher than Russia and China. Finally education in the USA is down the drain and the flood if immigrants costs more than it brings by keeping low wages low and blocking good education for troubled youths in cities. The USA is a failed policy card house.
They're just not that helpful
There was no real need. Russian/Chinese ABM systems are pretty bad so upgrades to warheads and ICBM guidance/buses is perfectly adequate.
1920's or earlier were the first experts experimenting with nuclear warfare while continuing the practical experience and human experiments with disease and chemical warfare. Sometimes to prove antidotes for short term goals but the experiments have lasted 6 - 8 live times, as the living are still subjects of the long ended experiments on the original, better movie analogy: "WHIFFS" and "MASH" test subjects.
AGENT ORANGE 🍊 😎
Why now?
So lets conclude this, even north korea is a sovereign state let them test their nukes….
Nice video 👌 mentally comfortable
Bro finds a video about ICBMs calming
"Mentally comfortable" what? So a standard video for you is mentally uncomfortable? Lmao
Lots of video of anti-aircraft missiles, and lots of graphics of spacelift vehicles used to depict ICBMs
Do you know what kind of risk it would be to put actual ICBM footage on here?! Of course there's not any!
@@SlimeBoy1231 There's plenty of ICBM footage here.
@@blurglide haha dude. You just inadvertently flipped this guy on his head in 2 basic statements. That was funny
so, what is an ICBM?
A land based, nuclear carrying rocket missile that can reach another continent.
yeah he didn't answer the question!... Ballistic means it's powerful enough to be fired and then fall under it's own weight...in this example ICBM means it's powerful enough to be propelled from one country and drop on another..a bullet is a ballistic missile..as it's propelled up by a gun but falls down through gravity...same concept
"Ballistic" is the term to used to refer to projectiles, often ones that get fired such as ballistics in reference to bullets from a gun. Except it's a missile, and is rocket-propelled rather than propelled by a single explosion.
I am yet to see an ICBM torpedo coated in aerogel!
It could come out of the water, and then unleash puppies!
I fought it's going to be how these missiles works rather than propaganda:(
I do like our sustems being so old they are not hooked to the internet. There is no way to hack them since they run on 50s tech.
World-wide delivery in 30 minutes or less!
Can't wait... I'll be granted more powers
wow
Not only did this video not answer the question in the title even remotely, the idea that a missile on a known, calculable ballistic trajectory provides difficult targeting is just wrong.
Sir I'm a big fan of ur video's. I'm a cvil eng it has helped me a lot
Bro i my also civil egn and a big fan of this channel 🙂
Good to hear
Me ToO
This isnt about chess
Imagine being a bomber pilot and your clear to drop your payload... Realizing at that button press you may be the first of many to end our species.
Wild to think how easily we can destroy ourselves
Sir could you make 3D video's of explaining different mechanics
Love from 🇮🇳
No.
No.
I wish to build one also :)
it's ez dude I did it when I was like 5.
Have we launched them yet?
So a ICMB is as powerful as a nuke? Or at least at the same level of hiroshima and nagasaki bombs?
I hate those things: The Nuclear Weapons!.
“Has shrunk by 85%” yeahhh right…
Speed of light 222.000.000 PSc impressie achievmant though
I wanna see all of them weapons being launched AT aliens
I would laugh so hard if America ever launched one and found out the guidance system was too old and malfunctioned and it just fell back into the states. It would suck for the civilians but America would finally understand what it's like to he bombed by them, they might consider not doing it so often after that 🤷♂️
That happens only in russia LMAO
even if the launch fails the nuke wouldn't go off, there are multiple safe guards to prevent them going off, and they only go off when they reach their target.
The U.S. should deploy more of these weapons to our NATO allies in Europe and in Asia!😊
ICBM 30 minutes are less or your next one is free
Didn't know ICBM = United States ICBM
cutting back on the number of nuclear weapons in an arsenal is just stupid. As long as you have nukes, you have nukes, and all the dangers of a nuclear armed country exist. If that's the case, its better to have as much as possible in order to be the biggest deterrent possible. I think our nuclear submarines do a better job as a deterrent than anything else. No country can get away with a first strike and not face nuclear retaliation.
Why possess 5k when 200 can do the work
Great work northman gumman keep up thé work
Let's just blow up earth, while we're at it😢
We all love it when things go boom, don't we? We do it every New Year, and every 4th of July in the United States!
Could we keep an ICBM in GEO orbit over our enemies and, at the press of a button, get them to slow to zero and drop down? That would be much faster than flying around the world.
You think other countries would allow that ??
can other countries keep the same over USA? why did u guys shoot a balloon fool with the f22? u could've just let it pass through
Cause America don’t fuck around
Nah u can’t just have shit in other countries airspace and they can see it on radar lmao shit will get shot down so fast
It's already fast....30 minutes are less or your next one is free
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All Stores Please Lower the price of all Military and Local for all Brands of Ballistic Missile Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏
rust in peace
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Hmmm.I was pretty certain we would have used some after 9/11…still unsure why we didn’t.
Cause that would have been a foolish thing
It doesn't matter how capable our (USA) ICBM systems or nuclear warheads are. If we use these it's the end of humans on Earth. We lose no matter what. Everyone loses.
PS. There's currently a 20% chance that we will have a nuclear war in 2023.
Wow are enemies dont even understand what it is, this will be one sided, we put too much faith into what the enemy has and knows. They are not even half of us 🇺🇲
Yes, we (USA) need to increase the Nuclear arsenal again. There are too many new treats, new countries really crazy with Nuclear development. Example: North Korean, Iran and now Putin.
Kid grow up... Russia have tsar bomba which is most dangerous and powerful nuclear bomb ever and they have more bombs than usa
Why other country making nuclear weapon because USA making so much 😂
Nice joke 🤣
China got them too
Usa making too much time for other country's to get our war heads also so not just America can tell everyone what to do
War is a dead god Aries ⚘ 🌚 👍 rest in the good news ⚘ okay bye
Yes😂🤣😎😅😌
Idiotic sabre rattling.
This is a US weaponry video. Not an actual explanation.
AMERICA FIRST🇺🇸🇺🇸
Moden Jet fighter
Why is there no mention of the UK, France and Israel as nuclear powers ? This soundbite video clip also fails to mention that the USA initially developed the MIRV technology which probably escalated tensions between the USA and Russia after first being deployed on Minuteman 3 in 1970 and also on other weapons systems like Trident.
And why keep showing the clip of the Bikini Atoll test from 1946 - why not incorporate footage of thermonuclear tests to show just how destructive modern nuclear weapons are - and if they are ever used, it would lead to the end of humanity. No one could survive such a terrible event.
Great America
Selim emini sllupcani ikam tregu ma ifort vetem zoti madh kit bot mas ktina jam selim emini sllupcani bume atomike kam ma fort se une ska
Boom
Goodbye black queen
The power by its self of a U.S. nuclear bomb it could very well just take a small number of them to make a point !! . Not hundreds or thousands !! . 50 to 80 maybe 90 less than 100 of them ? id say 75 of them would do the trick ! Lol . people who worry would take higher numbers ! Of them 😆
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This is one kf the reasons why I am proud to be from the US.
So tell me what reaction you expect from Kim watching this video in North Korea 🇰🇵 ? 😂😂😂😂 he just meet putin so expect more rockets .
I've often wondered if both sides launched, how many would actually make it to the target. Unfortunately, we may find out soon if the warmongers in US and Israeli govt have their way.
Simulation
It is more like the U.S nuclear arsenal propaganda video.
Dumb things people invent: episode #22
really? what's your alternative to keep the peace? flowers and feelings?
Russia just used this!
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So many errors.
😂😂😂 the missile we see in vedio All is USSR
Completely annoying, loud and unnecessary music in the background
Pakistan doesn't have ICBMs
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Another AI generated spam video
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ICBMs are similar to space rockets but ICBM s use higher thrust mechanism and fuel the igniters are different , aerodynamically different it can reach lot of speed. US and the EU using the same Raytheon shit. North Korea using the same shit as the EU stolen technology.
load it on a truck
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i think your glossing over the fact that you said that the American nuclear arsenal has shrunk by 85%? where the hell did all of that go? how did we lose it? Didn't we only us nuclear weapons twice?