What is the actual range of the Pershing missile deployed in Germany during the 1970's?

Question

The official range was just under 500 knots. What was the actual range? This should be declassified by now.

Answer 1

"In 1956, George Bunker, the president of The Martin Company, paid a courtesy call on General John Medaris of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal. Medaris noted that it would be advantageous to the Army if there were a missile plant in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral. Martin began construction of their Sand Lake facility in Orlando, Florida and opened it in late 1957. Ed Uhl, co-inventor of the bazooka, was the vice president and general manager of the new facility.

The US Army began feasibility studies in 1956 for a ballistic missile with a required range of 500–750 nautical miles. Later that year, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson issued the Wilson Memorandum that stripped the US Army of all missiles with a range of 200 miles or greater. When the memorandum was rescinded in 1958, ABMA began development. Initially called the Redstone-S (solid), the name was quickly changed to Pershing.

Seven companies were selected to provide proposals: Chrysler, Lockheed, Douglas, Convair, Firestone, Sperry-Rand and The Martin Company.[1] Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker— former governor of Michigan — was apparently under pressure from home to award the contract to a Michigan company. Chrysler was the only contractor from Michigan, but Medaris convinced Brucker to leave the decision entirely in the hands of ABMA. After a selection process by General Medaris and Dr. Arthur Rudolph, The Martin Company (later Martin Marietta after a 1961 merger) was awarded a CPFF (cost-plus-fixed-fee) contract for research, development, and initial production of the Pershing system under the technical supervision and concept control of the government. As Martin's quality control manager for the Pershing, Phil Crosby developed the concept of Zero Defects that enhanced the production and reliability of the system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-31_Pershing

Answer 2

Knots is a measure of speed and the missiles were probably a lot faster than 500 kts.

The range is shown as having been increased to 900 nautical miles.

They may have originally been designed with a range of 500 miles. That was increased due to the range of the Soviet SS-20s.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-31_Pershing