Can anyone differentiate between ICBM and SLV? Can SLV be used as ICBM?

Answer 1

Satellite Launch Vehicles (such as India's PSLV & GSLV) are meant to put their payload into orbit around Earth. Once this is done, nobody really cares what happens to the vehicle itself - it will fall back to earth after some time and probably burn out in the atmosphere

Contrast with ICBM - the payload (Warhead - conventional or otherwise) destination is on earth and not space. So the vehicle better survive re-entry into earth's atmosphere long enough to guarantee some amount of accuracy. Thus an ICBM will have a plasma hardened heat shield for re-entry and additional software to guide it to its mailing address

Answer 2

There's no reason why an SLV can't be used as a weapon. In fact some of the very early space program launch vehicles were military ICBM's modified to hold a capsule instead of a warhead.

Answer 3

If I'm not mistaken, SLV means Submarine Launched Vehicle as opposed to Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). I'm not sure if any ICBMs are launched via submarines. The advantage of submarines (besides being a mobile launching base) is that they can approach their targets stealthily -- close enough that short or medium range missiles would be adaquate to commit mass-murder without the need for larger, more massive long-range missiles.

Answer 4

ICBM means Inter Continental Ballistic Missile . It is a missile carried by a rocket to one continetn to another . It is a rocket wih a missile head , that is a bomb and the rocket carries it over a lange distance to an assigned target . SLv is a sattellite launchig ?Vehicle . this is also a rocket ,but it carries a sattellite instead of a bomb , for research in the sky or to e staioned in the space for communication and military purposes like watching the movement of troops and arms and ammunition of emeny countries .

Answer 5

SLV the Space Launcch Vehical is designed to put payload in space.While incase of ICBM ,it require to re-enter in to the atmosphere with re-entry capabilities.If SLV is converted in to ICBM with re-entry modification,it will be no longer known to be SLV.

Answer 6

SLV is called as Satellite launch Vehicle.It was used by India to launch satellites like Aryabhatta in th 60s.
It was a thin rocket,less powerful.so it cannot b used as an ICBM.
ICBM(Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) is a missile which is used 2 attack targets in another continent.
Certain technologies of India's advanced launch vehicles like GSLV can b used e.g cryogenic engines used in th final stages of GSLV can b used 4 an ICBM.