From trusty (hah!) old Wikipedia... The Minuteman I
(and Minuteman II)
were three stage, solid rocket fuel missiles.
The warhead they carried had a yield of 1.2 megatonnes.
The Minuteman guidance computer was the first one crammed into a
missile (first attempt was actually the SM-64 Navaho [sic], which
didn't work out). They were also the first solid fuel missiles. (So,
significantly less time needed to go from "Holy shit! They be nukin'
our base!" to "Here, taste some return pwnage." It mostly cut out the
whole step of fueling ("Pump faster extremely toxic chemicals!").)
On 29 May 2011 01:21, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> I also bet
that operating one would be a treaty violation.
Only if it's connected to certain peripherals.
Which peripherals were
originally bundled with it?
A big, long shiny thing with a noisy bit at one end and
REALLY noisy bit
at the other.
Actually, I was kinda asking for some details of what kind of missile the
"minuteman" was.
But the answers so far have been much more entertaining than that!