What Is An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)?

Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are a country’s nuclear weapon system. ICBMs have a minimum range of 3,100 miles (5,000 km).
The missiles are primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery.
The US Air Force approved the designation for the system that modernizes the ICBM.
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[@uditmaheshwari3835]

This video has everything except for the information what an ICBM actually is

[@marklui125]

😂

[@alonbechor1842]

Thanks for saving 10 minutes of my life

[@oklost9485]

Can we get a tutorial on how to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile any time soon? Thanks :D

[@MDN417]

Me too :)

[@abinashjenwin545]

Title : what is ICBM ? Video : United States have blah blah blah This is not fair

[@Brian-qj4kk]

Americans think they invented everything 😂

[@sarusbhagwat2967]

Exactly my thoughts,stopped watching midway

[@Aaron-wq3jz]

@@Brian-qj4kk surely invented KZbin. You can click off that too lol

[@innocentvwalika3838]

ICBM means Intercontinental Ballistic Measles

[@Vipbossguy]

Real engineering on a budget

[@MWB656]

0:15 this was bewildering!! 😁 Amazing.

[@smartbaba1321]

Wrong title of video, it should be US ICBM Messiles system, bcoz entire video is only about USA.

[@djuanvanacker1175]

“Seeing that mushroom cloud hits different” fuck yeah that bitch hit different lmao 🤣

[@BLACKHAWKDOWN21]

No.

[@cat-le1hf]

@@BLACKHAWKDOWN21 your dad hit different

[@incelloner4465]

kek

[@CREATE-ex6ky]

Amazing video explanation

[@MissilemanIII]

I worked on the Minuteman III.

[@ericdean4397]

So did I. M55a1, sr19, psre.

[@jeffreymbelu9718]

Top Gs ⬆️

[@mateusb09]

I thought this was supposed to be a video about ICBMs technology but I have reached half the video and so far I have only heard about this: united states, USA, america, united states and america. Oh, have you heard about united states?

[@MissilemanIII]

You should do a good video on the maintainers.

[@Clearmedium]

What if they want to make a bad video about it instead?

[@lunanegra6253]

Ashes ashes we all fall down😮

[@SL4PSH0CK]

all i know its a well no counter bamboozeld chess move

[@clintontriplett158]

Well put in just said hes sending these

[@Langenbergh]

Was this a promofilm for the US nuclear force?

[@russelllariscylll9938]

As if we needed a promotional film for anything involving our military power.

[@TheSilverChains]

Man, that smile....

[@koontzzlyrics8098]

I just love how during this video you show Russian ICBMS and some Americans thought it was theres 😆 🤣 😂 😹

[@thomasschreiber9559]

We had the newer Peacekeepers but then retired them when the cold war ended believing them unnecessary. Why didn't they retire the older Minuteman and keep the newer Peacekeepers?

[@CrystalNova_HI]

I wish to build one also :)

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

it's ez dude I did it when I was like 5.

[@rycriswell2326]

Nice video 👌 mentally comfortable

[@rq4740]

Bro finds a video about ICBMs calming

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

"Mentally comfortable" what? So a standard video for you is mentally uncomfortable? Lmao

[@AgnesCongdon-xk8hr]

1920's or earlier were the first experts experimenting with nuclear warfare while continuing the practical experience and human experiments with disease and chemical warfare. Sometimes to prove antidotes for short term goals but the experiments have lasted 6 - 8 live times, as the living are still subjects of the long ended experiments on the original, better movie analogy: "WHIFFS" and "MASH" test subjects. AGENT ORANGE 🍊 😎

[@nasirbad1452]

Great work northman gumman keep up thé work

[@SmartEngineering9168]

wow

[@EricAllen8494]

With Metamaterials basically manipulating physics without breaking any laws, creating the least amount of drag to NONE due to a ""atomic bubble"" (figuratively speaking). Let alone the Metamaterials that can turn invisible to multiple spectrums including visible. Search for some MIT, NASA, PeerReview articles, etc. 😁 Or Fusion weapons which wouldn't leave radioactive waste behind. Fusion is easy making it produce "endless energy" is a little harder. But Helion Energy in Washington is doing a great start. Would love a video on them.

[@blurglide]

Lots of video of anti-aircraft missiles, and lots of graphics of spacelift vehicles used to depict ICBMs

[@SlimeBoy1231]

Do you know what kind of risk it would be to put actual ICBM footage on here?! Of course there's not any!

[@blurglide]

@@SlimeBoy1231 There's plenty of ICBM footage here.

[@shredder9643]

@@blurglide haha dude. You just inadvertently flipped this guy on his head in 2 basic statements. That was funny

[@sanknoor]

Sir I'm a big fan of ur video's. I'm a cvil eng it has helped me a lot

[@bhagathvijay8028]

Bro i my also civil egn and a big fan of this channel 🙂

[@BLACKHAWKDOWN21]

Good to hear

[@francoissuissae6217]

Me ToO

[@fragjammer09]

This isnt about chess

[@SuckasNeverPlayMe]

Can't wait... I'll be granted more powers

[@js-wy8fg]

I fought it's going to be how these missiles works rather than propaganda:(

[@DannyCiez1945]

Why now?

[@eyezarc1239]

So lets conclude this, even north korea is a sovereign state let them test their nukes….

[@mrjimmbo]

Not only did this video not answer the question in the title even remotely, the idea that a missile on a known, calculable ballistic trajectory provides difficult targeting is just wrong.

[@karloyu3484]

👍

[@TimothySword]

I am yet to see an ICBM torpedo coated in aerogel!

[@TimothySword]

It could come out of the water, and then unleash puppies!

[@narsingojudharanmohan8a38]

Sir could you make 3D video's of explaining different mechanics Love from 🇮🇳

[@BLACKHAWKDOWN21]

No.

[@pepega3344]

No.

[@evrydayamerican]

We should have had nuclear Hyper Sonic Glide vehicle a decade ago with the amount of money we spend. But it's not a new arms race it's just staying relevant. We have 50yr old missiles in our silos. We need updated systems

[@peaceleader7315]

No... we don't need to.. We need more conventional weapons that doesn't rely on satellite systems.... Because after the nuclear war we would have a conventional alternative for once again dominate in the very name of sovereignty jurisdiction and patriotism flags... hmmmm

[@toddneff557]

As Trump wanted to do.!

[@OsintFirst]

The USA army is too big and too costly by trying to control all of the world instead of defending its CORE / STRATEGIC interests. Now the money is spread too thin and corruption and greed make it ineffective with ineffective weapons that are put in the market with too many flaws instead of carefully upgrading. Also research, production and maintenance costs are way higher than Russia and China. Finally education in the USA is down the drain and the flood if immigrants costs more than it brings by keeping low wages low and blocking good education for troubled youths in cities. The USA is a failed policy card house.

[@personzorz]

They're just not that helpful

[@aidanmattson681]

There was no real need. Russian/Chinese ABM systems are pretty bad so upgrades to warheads and ICBM guidance/buses is perfectly adequate.

[@pyeitme508]

Boom

[@cokertimilehin2504]

so, what is an ICBM?

[@cohandora]

A land based, nuclear carrying rocket missile that can reach another continent.

[@PompeyMatt17]

yeah he didn't answer the question!... Ballistic means it's powerful enough to be fired and then fall under it's own weight...in this example ICBM means it's powerful enough to be propelled from one country and drop on another..a bullet is a ballistic missile..as it's propelled up by a gun but falls down through gravity...same concept

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

"Ballistic" is the term to used to refer to projectiles, often ones that get fired such as ballistics in reference to bullets from a gun. Except it's a missile, and is rocket-propelled rather than propelled by a single explosion.

[@completelyanonymous4519]

Have we launched them yet?

[@scottyk1763]

Imagine being a bomber pilot and your clear to drop your payload... Realizing at that button press you may be the first of many to end our species. Wild to think how easily we can destroy ourselves

[@nasirbad1452]

Speed of light 222.000.000 PSc impressie achievmant though

[@victormartin3648]

Didn't know ICBM = United States ICBM

[@simonphoenix3789]

cutting back on the number of nuclear weapons in an arsenal is just stupid. As long as you have nukes, you have nukes, and all the dangers of a nuclear armed country exist. If that's the case, its better to have as much as possible in order to be the biggest deterrent possible. I think our nuclear submarines do a better job as a deterrent than anything else. No country can get away with a first strike and not face nuclear retaliation.

[@Absurdi5t]

Why possess 5k when 200 can do the work

[@iAmGio91]

“Has shrunk by 85%” yeahhh right…

[@dekapwt5618]

(IN MY HAND)

[@shinystar8435]

🤣😂🤣😂😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@evrydayamerican]

I do like our sustems being so old they are not hooked to the internet. There is no way to hack them since they run on 50s tech.

[@russelllariscylll9938]

World-wide delivery in 30 minutes or less!

[@martyxxl6751]

Let's just blow up earth, while we're at it😢

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

We all love it when things go boom, don't we? We do it every New Year, and every 4th of July in the United States!

[@legend68rsk59]

So a ICMB is as powerful as a nuke? Or at least at the same level of hiroshima and nagasaki bombs?

[@shaunshea1864]

The U.S. should deploy more of these weapons to our NATO allies in Europe and in Asia!😊

[@peteresk6649]

load it

[@Your_TribalChief]

I wanna see all of them weapons being launched AT aliens

[@allrightsreserved531]

ICBM 30 minutes are less or your next one is free

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

Could we keep an ICBM in GEO orbit over our enemies and, at the press of a button, get them to slow to zero and drop down? That would be much faster than flying around the world.

[@Tr3briickz]

You think other countries would allow that ??

[@desktoppc5738]

can other countries keep the same over USA? why did u guys shoot a balloon fool with the f22? u could've just let it pass through

[@russelllariscylll9938]

Cause America don’t fuck around

[@h_uskyy2191]

Nah u can’t just have shit in other countries airspace and they can see it on radar lmao shit will get shot down so fast

[@allrightsreserved531]

It's already fast....30 minutes are less or your next one is free

[@brittking3990]

Hmmm.I was pretty certain we would have used some after 9/11…still unsure why we didn’t.

[@Absurdi5t]

Cause that would have been a foolish thing

[@psycleen]

rust in peace

[@constantinewahlang2390]

Great America

[@shinystar8435]

Yes😂🤣😎😅😌

[@abinaslimbu3057]

Moden Jet fighter

[@deannaspencer8988]

All Stores Please Lower the price of all Military and Local for all Brands of Ballistic Missile Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏

[@incelloner4465]

AMERICA FIRST🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@paleogeology9554]

There is zero excuse for ever using these terrible weapons EVER again. Frankly humans are far too primitive to possess such things. Its insanity that we allow such things

[@Inertia888]

You are absolutely correct. But if a power who disagrees with you, sees no deterrent, they will use them. So, even though there is no good reason to *use* them, there is a reason to *have* them. If only so the other person will not use the ones that they have. It makes me sad, but it is the reality of the world we live in.

[@righand]

Allow these things???? We have to possess these weapons due to what our adversaries possess.

[@tonyyee7040]

@@Inertia888 precisely what I thought, vice versa too, now that the US has "The Triad" and other countries don't, look at how easily US can interfere with other countries politics, agenda and do or command as they see fit.

[@joedemaio1342]

I don’t disagree with you @paleo, but if the US bans them, then China and Russia will have them and we are unprotected, so we must have them too. The same ideology applies to all countries, we can’t ban them internationally so we need them to keep all countries in a mutual destruction agreement

[@lIII0IIIl]

@@Inertia888 Mutually Assured Destruction. Humanity is overrated

[@gunsnrosesforever100]

I would laugh so hard if America ever launched one and found out the guidance system was too old and malfunctioned and it just fell back into the states. It would suck for the civilians but America would finally understand what it's like to he bombed by them, they might consider not doing it so often after that 🤷‍♂️

[@emmanueledano5194]

That happens only in russia LMAO

[@GamePois0n]

even if the launch fails the nuke wouldn't go off, there are multiple safe guards to prevent them going off, and they only go off when they reach their target.

[@shinystar8435]

🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🤔

[@geoffreyaugust0]

It doesn't matter how capable our (USA) ICBM systems or nuclear warheads are. If we use these it's the end of humans on Earth. We lose no matter what. Everyone loses.

[@geoffreyaugust0]

PS. There's currently a 20% chance that we will have a nuclear war in 2023.

[@selimemini4503]

Selim emini sllupcani ikam tregu ma ifort vetem zoti madh kit bot mas ktina jam selim emini sllupcani bume atomike kam ma fort se une ska

[@cortilusgrant7675]

War is a dead god Aries ⚘ 🌚 👍 rest in the good news ⚘ okay bye

[@dracokinerek]

Goodbye black queen

[@taen6917]

So tell me what reaction you expect from Kim watching this video in North Korea 🇰🇵 ? 😂😂😂😂 he just meet putin so expect more rockets .

[@reverse3590]

sarmat

[@user-yb9sf5io4h]

Ja verím v demokratickom zákone je nespochybniteľni

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

Why is there no mention of the UK, France and Israel as nuclear powers ? This soundbite video clip also fails to mention that the USA initially developed the MIRV technology which probably escalated tensions between the USA and Russia after first being deployed on Minuteman 3 in 1970 and also on other weapons systems like Trident. And why keep showing the clip of the Bikini Atoll test from 1946 - why not incorporate footage of thermonuclear tests to show just how destructive modern nuclear weapons are - and if they are ever used, it would lead to the end of humanity. No one could survive such a terrible event.

[@tunguyenvan7922]

Simulation

[@specialized41]

Yes, we (USA) need to increase the Nuclear arsenal again. There are too many new treats, new countries really crazy with Nuclear development. Example: North Korean, Iran and now Putin.

[@rohitmohanty641]

Kid grow up... Russia have tsar bomba which is most dangerous and powerful nuclear bomb ever and they have more bombs than usa

[@ManagingVideo]

Why other country making nuclear weapon because USA making so much 😂

[@ghostsquad9]

Nice joke 🤣

[@alfredbaxter1061]

China got them too

[@thereeceforbes]

Usa making too much time for other country's to get our war heads also so not just America can tell everyone what to do

[@pfclumi]

This is one kf the reasons why I am proud to be from the US.

[@AAa-cf1oe]

😆

[@ugandaforever8942]

This is a US weaponry video. Not an actual explanation.

[@belamihok7519]

😂

[@unknownuser6757]

Russia just used this!

[@RednerKlallamStrong]

The power by its self of a U.S. nuclear bomb it could very well just take a small number of them to make a point !! . Not hundreds or thousands !! . 50 to 80 maybe 90 less than 100 of them ? id say 75 of them would do the trick ! Lol . people who worry would take higher numbers ! Of them 😆

[@kingsgazcons370]

L

[@sisfantasto7004]

Idiotic sabre rattling.

[@Electo.magnatic.fusion.]

😂😂😂 the missile we see in vedio All is USSR

[@theghostoftravel]

god bless the chinese triads for protecing usa

[@peteresk6649]

load it on a truck

[@DukeCannon]

I've often wondered if both sides launched, how many would actually make it to the target. Unfortunately, we may find out soon if the warmongers in US and Israeli govt have their way.

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

Pakistan doesn't have ICBMs

[@tedyshor]

Dumb things people invent: episode #22

[@BrothersKeeper44]

really? what's your alternative to keep the peace? flowers and feelings?

[@selimemini4503]

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[@flowersofthefield340]

⚠️💯🚩🦇

[@selimemini4503]

NAUSTRI SWICERLAND KTO RAKET VULLNETAR HIQ ZDU MANY SELIM EMINI VULLNETAR BOLL KAM MANY SATELUT SAHST KAM PRINC BEXH

[@michellegutierrez2119]

The time is NOW! We are no longer respected and feared as in the past 🦾🦾

[@WilliamBall-kz5gq]

Lk

[@jessereycruel7637]

[@RhadagasttheOchre]

So many errors.

[@AK-NG]

It is more like the U.S nuclear arsenal propaganda video.

[@raveneye77]

Completely annoying, loud and unnecessary music in the background

[@faisalhussain9746]

Thanks to Russians for outstanding on this ❤

[@Agent_Mi]

ICBMs are similar to space rockets but ICBM s use higher thrust mechanism and fuel the igniters are different , aerodynamically different it can reach lot of speed. US and the EU using the same Raytheon shit. North Korea using the same shit as the EU stolen technology.

[@tshephangsithole750]

Is this about ICBM or US blah blah?

[@kimjoseph3080]

That's all a lie