Pershing 2 bundeswehr
Pershing-panzer The Pershing II Weapon System [a] was a solid-fueled two-stage medium-range ballistic missile designed and built by Martin Marietta to replace the Pershing 1a Field Artillery Missile System as the United States Army 's primary nuclear-capable theater-level weapon.
Pershing 2 neu-ulm The Pershing II was a mobile, intermediate-range ballistic missile deployed by the U.S. Army at American bases in West Germany beginning in It was aimed at targets in the western Soviet Union. Each Pershing II carried a single, variable-yield thermonuclear warhead with an explosive force equivalent to kilotons of TNT.
Pershing 2 demonstrationen
Die Pershing II wurde nur US-Truppen im Rahmen der NATO in Westdeutschland zugeteilt, die Luftwaffe der deutschen Bundeswehr behielt weiterhin die Pershing IA. Die US-Armee unterhielt drei mit Pershing-II ausgerüstete Raketenartilleriebataillone, die dem 56th Field Artillery Command in Schwäbisch Gmünd unterstanden und denen jeweilsPershing demonstrationen How the Pershing II Missile Relit the Cold War. The West knew that the Soviet Union would see the placement of the new missiles as a provocation and would protest. In a sense, this was the goal.