Our paper noted: "The deployment of heavy conventional submarine-launched missiles has four major advantages.

He said weapons carried on board were not damaged, but declined to specify if the boat was carrying nuclear or conventional missiles.

What has captured the public imagination is the possibility of both conventional or nuclear missiles in space which could reach targets on the ground.

The Raiders have many weapons, including conventional and nuclear missiles as well as kinetic energy weapons.

Iraq launches several conventional missiles at Kuwait, but this has no effect on Kuwaiti oil production.

A conventional HE-headed missile was still a formidable weapon and could inflict terrible damage.

Navy aircraft aboard carriers in the Pacific are on call, as are submarines equipped with a range of conventional and nuclear missiles.

They have also been seen to carry conventional missiles and tactical nuclear weapons.

Finally, they also considered conventional missiles in "super hard" silos, buried under the southern side of mountains.

It controls China's nuclear and conventional strategic missiles.