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Shyran Rocket Corps.

06-02-2004, 06:17
By order of the Provisional Government Council of the Protectorate of Shyra, the Shyran Rocket Corps is now officially formed, sites are being charted for missile bases, and after much study, we will be using Minuteman III ICBMs as our primary nuclear deterent force, these are the stats of the Minuteman III:

General Characteristics.
Primary Function: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
Contractor: Hessle Co.
Power Plant: Three solid-propellant rocket motors; first stage - Thiokol; second stage - Aerojet-General; third stage - United Technologies Chemical Systems Division.
Length: 59.9 feet (18 meters).
Weight: 79,432 pounds (32,158 kilograms).
[/b]Diameter:[/b] 5.5 feet (1.67 meters).
Range: 6,000-plus miles (5,218 nautical miles).
Speed: Approximately 15,000 mph (Mach 23 or 24,000 kph) at burnout.
Ceiling: 700 miles (1,120 kilometers).
Thrust: First stage, 202,600 pounds.
Load: Re-entry vehicle: Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space MK 12 or MK 12A.
Guidance systems: Inertial system: Boeing North American; ground electronic/security system: Sylvania Electronics Systems and Hessle Co.
Unit cost: $7 million.
Date deployed: N/A.
Inventory: 0.
06-02-2004, 06:23
After more study, it has been decided we shall attempt to initially build 24 Minuteman III ICBMs, many more will come later.
06-02-2004, 14:41
We hace now gathered the necessary equipment, and have built a Missile Procedures Trainer (MPT) in a hidden location, it is based off of the real type of Launch Control Center (LCC) used to control, monitor and fire up to fifty Minuteman III missiles.

The MPT. (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an6.jpg)