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To: moonshot925
"55 R-36M2 (SS-18) with 550 warheads"

Trident D5 can carry 12 MIRVs. SALT I limited them to 8 warheads and SORT (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty 1 June 2003) to 4 or 5.

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7 posted on 05/24/2012 2:06:46 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: bruinbirdman

Trident D5 can actually carry 14 W76 warheads in a lower-range maximum payload configuration.

As of 2010, there are 1,152 warheads deployed on 288 Trident D5 SLBMs.

568 W76 (100 kt)
200 W76-1 (100 kt)
384 W88 (455 kt)

The W76-1 is a refurbished W76 warhead.

http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/USStratNukeForceNewSTART


15 posted on 05/24/2012 3:26:02 AM PDT by moonshot925
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