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  • 1Silo (store) — Silo was an electronics retailer that opened in 1947 and operated throughout the United States until its demise in 1995.HistoryBeginningFounded by Sidney Cooper, Silo billed itself as an electronics discounter, operating big box format stores,… …

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  • 2Silo (library) — Infobox file format name = Silo icon = caption = extension = .silo mime = type code = uniform type = magic = owner = released = latest release version = 4.6.1 latest release date = March 2008 genre = scientific data format container for =… …

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  • 3Missile silo — A missile silo is an underground, vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). They typically have the missile some distance under the surface, protected by a large blast door on top …

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  • 4Ground-Based Midcourse Defense — (GMD) is a component of the national missile defense strategy of the United States administered by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Previously known as National Missile Defense (NMD), the name was changed in 2002 to differentiate it from other… …

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  • 5Ground-Based Interceptor — Eine GBI Rakete wird in ein Silo geladen Ein startender PLV Booster …

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  • 6Ground Based Interceptor — Eine GBI Rakete wird in ein Silo geladen Die Ground Based Interceptor Rakete (dt. etwa: „bodengestützte Abfang[einheit]“) ist eine Anti Ballistic Missile zur Abwehr von ballistischen Interkontinentalraketen. Sie ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil… …

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  • 7Intercontinental ballistic missile — An intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) ballistic missile typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery, that is, delivering one or more nuclear warheads. Due to their great range… …

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  • 8LGM-30 Minuteman — Type Intercontinental ballistic missile Service hist …

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  • 9RT-23 Molodets — RT 23 in the Saint Petersburg railway museum. The RT 23 (NATO reporting name SS 24 Scalpel) was a Soviet ICBM developed and produced by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau before 1991. It is cold launched, and comes in silo and railway car based variants …

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  • 10Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction        Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …

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