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Ballistic Missiles of the United States

This is a child group of Ballistic Missiles, collecting the Missiles And Guided Munitions subcategory's ballistic missiles developed by the United States: the Cold War era Titan I, Jupiter-C and Minuteman family that formed the backbone of the American land-based strategic deterrent, the later LGM-118 Peacekeeper, the air-launched GAM-87 Skybolt program and the recent AGM-183 ARRW hypersonic prototype. With 21 attested members this traces the United States' own strategic and tactical ballistic missile programs from the earliest Cold War intercontinental systems through the most recent hypersonic weapons development efforts.

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1. Wikipedia: PGM-11 Redstone
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The PGM-11 Redstone was the first large American ballistic missile. A short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), it was in active service with the United States Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 as part of NATO's Cold War defense of Western Europe.
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