A Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) is a warhead delivery system that uses a low Earth orbit towards its target destination. Just before reaching...
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Space weapon (redirect from Orbital bombardment)
deployed a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System from 1968 to 1983. Using this system, a nuclear warhead could be placed in low Earth orbit, and later...
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Kendall III stated that China was developing and testing a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS). In May 2025, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency...
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flights of the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System. A flight that does not reach space is still sometimes called sub-orbital, but cannot officially be...
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bombardment or a kinetic orbital strike is the hypothetical act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert kinetic projectile from orbit (orbital...
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Глобальная ракета, ГР-1, romanized: Globalnaya raketa) was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed...
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threatening China." Tyler Rogoway (16 Oct 2021) China Tested A Fractional Orbital Bombardment System That Uses A Hypersonic Glide Vehicle: Report "China surprises...
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of kilometres (or even indefinitely, in the case of some fractional-orbital capable systems) at speeds of up to 7.5 to 10 kilometres per second (4 to...
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a very large hydrogen bomb into orbit as a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS). The existence of the system was alluded to in a speech by then...
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Kendall III stated that China was developing and testing a fractional orbital bombardment system.[better source needed][relevant?] In August 2020, the United...
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the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System – had a partial orbital trajectory, and unlike most ICBMs its target could not be deduced from its orbital flight...
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Anti-ballistic missile (redirect from Antiballistic missile system)
already made an ABM system questionable for defending against an all-out attack. One problem was the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) that would...
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most notable efforts were the R-36ORB Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and Polyus orbital weapons system. The R-36ORB was a Soviet ICBM in the...
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certain direction, and as the Soviets introduced their Fractional Orbital Bombardment System and high-angle "lofted" trajectories, this no longer offered...
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reignited a single time. When the Soviet military developed the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, Yangel's OKB-586 proposed a new version of their R-36 ICBM...
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propellants. The FOBS, or Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, was a Soviet programme to place a nuclear warhead into a 150 km low Earth orbit, in order to allow...
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treaty (1979) that prohibited the USSR from deploying its Fractional Orbital Bombardment System. In 1983 he created CARINET, a computer network that CGNET...
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Nuclear weapons delivery (redirect from Nuclear weapon delivery system design)
low Earth orbit has been banned by the Outer Space Treaty as early as 1967. Also, the eventual Soviet Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) that...
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electromagnetic pulse and co-orbital weapons for ASAT roles. The interceptor struck a test satellite at a 283 km (176 mi) altitude in low Earth orbit (LEO), thus making...
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(Pakistani) Ghauri-II (Pakistani) Ghauri-III Global Rocket 1 fractional orbital bombardment system missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-X-10...
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Fractional Orbital Bombardment System – the Soviet orbital nuclear missile system, deployed operationally 1969–1983 Nuclear weapon delivery systems Outer...
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system ASRAD-R (Bolide missile) (Germano-Swedish) land-based VSHORAD system ASRAD-R Naval (Bolide missile) (Germano-Swedish) shipboard VSHORAD system...
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reporting by the Financial Times, this weapons system consists of two parts: a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS) and a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV)...
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Sentinel program (section System overview)
the US missile fields. In response to the new threat of Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and improved SLBMs, the PARs would be rearranged...
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nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, hypothesized as part of a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, that circled the globe before speeding towards its target...
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Russia) developed a system to deliver nuclear weapons with missiles in Earth orbit, called a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS). The United States...
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from the Kuznetzov Bureau for the Global Rocket 1 (GR-1) Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS)[citation needed] intercontinental ballistic missile...
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Soviet Union was developing a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, a nuclear missile designed to be placed into low Earth orbit and to be brought back down...
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program Sputnik crisis (1957) Vostok program (1960–1963) Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (1960–1982) Soviet crewed lunar programs (1961–1976) Voskhod...
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Retrieved 2023-09-17. Ad Astra online edition Zee News, "India's Mars Orbiter team wins National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award", January 13, 2015...
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