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V2
- Belkan MIRV Delivery Bus -



WEAPON INFORMATION:
Purpose: MIRV delivery bus
Manufacturer(s): Belkan Federation/Principality of Belka
Date Started: 1981 (?)
Date Completed: 1995 (prototype?)
Dates Destroyed: December 31st, 1995 / December 31st, 2010

Armament: 8x W87 nuclear warheads
Firing Range: ----
Energy Source: ----
Speed: ----
Propulsion: Multi-stage rocket booster

Height: ----
Width: ----
Length: ----
Weight: ----

INFORMATION:
Although the V1 designation was given to a tactical warhead, the V2 is a delivery system for Multiple Independently target-table Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads rather than a nuke itself. MIRVs split up following the boost phase to attack separate targets; although the warheads themselves are of relatively small yields (many non-MIRV'ed strategic nukes reaching into the megaton range while MIRV'ed warheads are several hundred kilotons), their ability to strike at numerous targets make them a potent weapons system. This MIRV bus is specifically designed to carry eight W87 nuclear warheads, initially designed with a 300kt yield, but later upgraded to 475kt.

OVERVIEW:
The V2 was, like the V1 and other superweapons developed prior to the Belkan War, part of Project Pendragon. This program was initiated to give Belka strategic superiority over potential adversaries, through both superior delivery systems such as the V2 and ABM systems including Excalibur.

Though its individual warheads were probably of a lesser yield than the V1s dropped by Belka to end the war, its ability to launch eight from a single delivery system made the Allies consider it a serious threat when one (presumably a prototype as it has only one warhead and Pops states in 2010 that no V2s were completed during the war) fell into the hands of A World With No Boundaries. This example was destroyed, however, exploding high in the atmosphere during its boost phase.

More V2s were constructed, and one in particular played a significant role in the Circum-Pacific War. Held in Gründer Industries' inventory since the Belkan War, it was loaded into the SOLG, an Osean orbital railgun built for nuclear delivery. Upon the discovery of their complicity in starting the war, the Grey Men intended to launch its warheads at various cities around the globe. Although its control center was destroyed by a joint Yuktobanian-Osean force, an automatic reaction was triggered, and its orbit began to deteriorate. Programmed by the Belkans to fall on Oured, it was destroyed before it could strike the city.

SOURCES:
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (the game)
Ace Combat 5- Mission 27 and 27+ (Briefing )
SOLG

This post has been edited by RoddH: 19 March 2011 - 04:09 AM

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

Does anyone know how powerful one of the warheads is?

[Grastens 7]

Divide half of the metropolitan areas of Osea or Yuktobania by 7... I assume it would be close to half of the power of each warhead on the Dongfeng 25.

Article checked; grammar and spelling edited.

[Apollo]

I think they meant that Osea/Yuke had about 14 cities each.

[JianDaoXiao]

Article edited. Updated the format.

[Heinkel]

I think they meant that Osea/Yuke had about 14 cities each.

You mean major cities, right? because a superpower with 14 cities is rather hard....

[Apollo]

Yes I did Heinkel. 14 major cities.

[Scherzo]

No Image exists of the V2, you say?

[Ribbon-Azure]

Image cropped and added, added in information about the W87.

[Scherzo]

More Pictures:





From ACZ (sorry for bad quality):

[Ribbon-Blue]

Woot! Woot! Thanks a ton Herr Stuka.

[Scherzo]

No problem.

Also, could you change my name to Scherzo?

[Zaku]

Edited for technical accuracy, better grammar, better wording, and in-article links.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

Fixed the wrong grammar.

[Roaches]

V2 Plans...

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

Roaches, on 27 November 2011 - 06:08 AM, said:

V2 Plans...

Where did you get this bro? I love it!

[Eurocanard]

Those plans seem kind of...wrong. I.E. there are only two real warheads there (I know they do that with real-world MIRVs, but two warheads is hardly the doomsday V2 was supposed to create) and the scale seems really off. I doubt that the V2 is only six inches in diameter, and if I assume that, for some strange reason, the dimensions are meant to be scaled by a factor of 100 as well, then the V2 is 50 feet in diameter, which is much too large compared to a typical nuke.

[Roaches]

Eurocanard, on 27 November 2011 - 01:23 PM, said:

Those plans seem kind of...wrong. I.E. there are only two real warheads there (I know they do that with real-world MIRVs, but two warheads is hardly the doomsday V2 was supposed to create) and the scale seems really off. I doubt that the V2 is only six inches in diameter, and if I assume that, for some strange reason, the dimensions are meant to be scaled by a factor of 100 as well, then the V2 is 50 feet in diameter, which is much too large compared to a typical nuke.

This thing was supposed to be fired from the SOLG's barrel in which a plane could even fit in when flown in with precision. Though I do agree that its kinda off in some way scale wise.

[Steel Hawk]

I think it's more important to remember the ratios rather then the exact measurements given in the schematic slide.