Pershing I

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Pershing

IMGM-31A

 

The MGM-31A, Pershing I Battlefield Support Missile entered service with the United States Army in 1964, replacing the aging Redstone Missile System. The Pershing I missile is a solid-propellant, two-stage, surface to surface ballistic missile.

 

The missile is transported on three tracked vehicles: one carrying the missile and erector-launcher, one carrying the warhead and one carrying the programmer test station and power station.

 

Guidance is by on-board radar which steers the missile by maneuvering the steering vanes. The missile is steered until the radar image received matches the internally stored map.

 

The warhead is nuclear with a circular probability of error radius of 1200 ft. The Pershing I served until replaced in the late 1960's by the Pershing I A Missile System. The Pershing I is no longer in service with any nation.

 

Length: 10.5 meters (34 ft.)

Diameter: 1 meter (39 in.)

Weight: 4,464 kg (10,000 lbs.)

Guidance: Internal Inertial

Range: 162 to 650 km (100 to 400 miles)

 

Museum Acc. # 70.93.1/2/3

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