What country has the biggest missile?

In January 2021, North Korea unveiled another missile - a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile which it declared to be "the world's most powerful weapon".
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Who has the biggest missile in the world?

R-36M (SS-18 Satan)

This Russian Intercontinental ballistic missile is the heaviest and most powerful in the world.
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Who has the strongest missiles in the world?

1. LGM-30 Minuteman III (United states)-Minuteman missiles have existed since the late 1950s. These weapons provide quick reactions, inertial guidance, high reliability, high accuracy, and significant, long distance target capabilities.
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Which countries has the best missile technology in the world?

With the test of the PAD missile, India became the fourth country to have successfully developed an Anti-ballistic missile system, after United States, Russia and Israel.
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Which country has the fastest missile in the world?

The Indian/Russian BrahMos, currently the fastest operational supersonic missile capable of speeds of around 2,100–2,300 mph, is the most well-known supersonic missile. A hypersonic missile is five times faster than the speed of sound and exceeds Mach-5 (3,800 mph).
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Top 10 Biggest Missiles in the World (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Size 2019)



Does America have secret weapons?

The U.S. military already has several rudimentary anti-space weapons. The U.S. Navy, for instance, has the SM-3, a missile originally designed to shoot down incoming ballistic missile warheads. Ballistic missile warheads briefly travel the same general route as satellites in low-Earth orbit.
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Can a nuke be stopped?

The short answer is yes, nuclear bombs can be intercepted, albeit quite difficult to do. Ballistic missiles are used to deliver nuclear bombs in a flight trajectory.
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Which country is No 1 in missile?

According to a report, Russia, America, China, Britain, France and India are considered the most powerful countries in the world in missile strength. US, Russia and China continue to remain the strongest in the world because of their missile strength.
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Can the US block a nuclear missile?

The answer, experts said, is not a very effective one. The US only has a limited ability to destroy an incoming nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, a study released last month by the American Physical Society concluded.
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What country has best missile defense?

Missile defense systems by country
  • Definitions.
  • China.
  • France, UK and Italy.
  • India. 4.1 Ballistic missile defence. 4.2 Cruise missile defense.
  • Israel.
  • Russia.
  • United States.
  • Other developments. 8.1 Japan. 8.2 Republic of China.
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Who has the best air defense in the world?

Overview – Undoubtedly, the best air defence system in the world is S – 400. Countries like Turkey and India opted to buy this air defence system even after threats of sanctions by the United States.
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Who has the most advanced missiles in the world?

The DF-41 is currently the most powerful Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), developed in China. It is one of the deadliest ICBMs in the world. It is based on an 8-axle launcher vehicle and is similar in concept to Russian road-mobile ICBMs such as Topol-M and Yars.
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Which is the most powerful nuclear missile in the world?

The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба) (code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a hydrogen aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
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How many nukes would it take to destroy the world?

This is why another study had been conducted in 2018 testing a similar scenario that also concluded that it would take 100 nuclear bombs to end this world. What is scarier is that within this world there are 13,080 ready-to-use nuclear warheads and yet it takes such a small amount.
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Can Russian missiles reach the US?

New START limits all Russian deployed intercontinental-range nuclear weapons, including every Russian nuclear warhead that is loaded onto an intercontinental-range ballistic missile that can reach the United States in approximately 30 minutes.
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What US cities would be targets in a nuclear war?

Dr. Redlener identified six cities that have the greatest likelihood of being attacked: New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston. Only New York, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles' emergency management websites give ways to respond to a radioactive disaster.
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Who has the most powerful nuclear force?

Recommended. Estimates of exact numbers vary but it is widely agreed Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. According to the Stockholm Peace Institute, Putin had 6,255 nukes as of January 2021. Other organisations monitoring nuclear proliferation put the total between 5,977 and 6257.
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Which countries can defend against nuclear missiles?

Missile defence systems have been or are being developed by a number of states, including the US, Russia, China, Israel and India while France and Italy have jointly developed a missile capable of ballistic missile defence.
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Who invented nuclear bomb?

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb."
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How many nukes would it take to destroy the US?

The absolute doomsday scenario is a “nuclear winter.” For that to happen, the US and Russia would have to use about 2,000 nukes each and destroy major cities and targets, Toon told me.
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What is the USA's most powerful weapon?

The B83 nuclear bomb is the biggest device in the U.S. stockpile. It has a maximum delivery of 1.2 megatons – that's 1.2 million tons of TNT. This is 80 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War Two. The B83 weighs 1.5 tons and entered service in 1983.
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