Other MIRVs

Missiles with multiple warheads that can’t be targeted (ie they are designed to all fall around the same target to cause more damage to an area target… like a city) are called MRVed for multiple reentry vehicle. If they can be individually targeted then they are MIRVed, but if they can manouver and are individually targeted then they are called MARVed.

Most French, British, US, and Russian nuclear armed ballistic missiles are capable of carrying MIRVs. In the US Poseidon, Trident I, Trident II, Minuteman III, and Peacekeeper were or are MIRV capable. Polaris A3 could carry 3 warheads but IIRC they could not be independantly targeted.

Thanks for the Explanation.

A MIRV is an independantly targeted reentry vehicle that is one of many inside a single missile. The Soviet FOBS is a fractional orbital bombardment system and is fitted with a single warhead intended to be fired over the South pole to attack the USA from the south and be detonated in space above the US to blind its radars and damage its electronics. FOBS is not a MIRV. However SS-18, SS-19, SS-20, SS-26, Topol-M and most current operational SLBMs are MIRVed. (Current operational SLBMs are SS-N-18 and SS-N-20).