UGM-27 Titan II/Related Articles

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Intercontinental ballistic missile [r]: A ballistic missile, carrying one or more warheads, with a range in excess of 5500 kilometers; the definition traditionally referred to land-based weapons, but some submarine-launched ballistic missiles have this capability ^[e]
United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles ^[e]
HGM-25A Titan I‎ [r]: First-generation U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile ^[e]

Hypergolic [r]: Chemicals, usually a fuel and an oxidizer, used in liquid fuel rockets, which have the property of igniting on contact rather than needing a separate ignition system ^[e]
- Nitrogen tetroxide [r]: A liquid with a low boiling point (21.4 C), usually kept liquid by pressure; an extremely poisonous, highly reactive oxidizer of colorless dinitrogen tetraoxide (N2O4) and red-brown nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in a temperature-dependent equilibrium; used as a hypergolic oxidizer in rocket engines ^[e]
- Aerozine 50 [r]: A storable liquid rocket propellant composed of equal parts of hydrazine and UDMH; hypergolic with nitrogen tetroxide or RFNA oxidizer ^[e]
Inertial guidance [r]: Navigation method that does not depend on external references, but computes the present position by sensing the movement of the navigating platform from a precisely known starting point in space, using accelerometers to sense position changes from a reference provided by gyroscopes ^[e]
Nuclear weapon, W53 [r]: A 9 megaton U.S. nuclear weapon, retired in its missile warhead configuration, and in inactive storage of the gravity bomb version for the B-52 ^[e]