List of missiles
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Below is a list of missile
Missile
Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...

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, sorted alphabetically by name. See also the list of rockets and the list of missiles by country.

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Types of missiles:
  • Conventional guided missiles
    • Air-to-air missile
      Air-to-air missile
      An air-to-air missile is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft. AAMs are typically powered by one or more rocket motors, usually solid fuelled but sometimes liquid fuelled...

    • Air-to-surface missile
      Air-to-surface missile
      An air-to-surface missile is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft and strike ground targets on land, at sea, or both...

    • Anti-ballistic missile
      Anti-ballistic missile
      An anti-ballistic missile is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles .A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" describes any antimissile system designed to counter...

    • Anti-satellite weapon
      Anti-satellite weapon
      Anti-satellite weapons are designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Currently, only the United States, the former Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China are known to have developed these weapons. On September 13, 1985, the United States destroyed US...

    • Anti-ship missile
      Anti-ship missile
      Anti-ship missiles are guided missiles that are designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming type, many use a combination of inertial guidance and radar homing...

    • Anti-submarine missile
      Anti-submarine missile
      An anti-submarine missile is a standoff weapon including a rocket designed to rapidly deliver an explosive warhead or homing torpedo from the launch platform to the vicinity of a submarine.-History:...

    • Anti-tank guided missile
      Anti-tank guided missile
      An anti-tank missile , anti-tank guided missile , anti-tank guided weapon or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily-armored military vehicles....

    • Land-attack missile
      Land-attack missile
      A land-attack missile is a naval surface-to-surface missile that is capable of effectively attacking targets ashore, unlike specialised anti-ship missiles, which are optimized for striking other ships. Some dual-role missiles are suitable for both missions....

    • Surface-to-air missile
      Surface-to-air missile
      A surface-to-air missile or ground-to-air missile is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles...

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    • Surface-to-surface missile
      Surface-to-surface missile
      A surface-to-surface missile is a guided projectile launched from a hand-held, vehicle mounted, trailer mounted or fixed installation or from a ship. They are often powered by a rocket motor or sometimes fired by an explosive charge, since the launching platform is typically stationary or moving...

    • Wire-guided missile
      Wire-guided missile
      A wire-guided missile is a missile that is guided by signals sent to it via thin wires connected between the missile and its guidance mechanism, which is located somewhere near the launch site. As the missile flies, the wires are reeled out behind it...

  • Cruise missile
    Cruise missile
    A cruise missile is a guided missile that carries an explosive payload and is propelled, usually by a jet engine, towards a land-based or sea-based target. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high accuracy...

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  • Ballistic missile
    Ballistic missile
    A ballistic missile is a missile that follows a sub-orbital ballistic flightpath with the objective of delivering one or more warheads to a predetermined target. The missile is only guided during the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight and its course is subsequently governed by the...

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    • Tactical ballistic missile
      Tactical ballistic missile
      A tactical ballistic missile is a ballistic missile designed for short-range battlefield use. Typically, range is less than . Tactical ballistic missiles are usually mobile to ensure survivability and quick deployment, as well as carrying a variety of warheads to target enemy facilities, assembly...

    • Short-range ballistic missile
      Short-range ballistic missile
      A short-range ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a range of about 1,000 km or less. They are usually capable of carrying nuclear weapons. In potential regional conflicts, these missiles would be used because of the short distances between some countries and their relative low cost...

    • Theatre ballistic missile
      Theatre ballistic missile
      A theatre ballistic missile is any ballistic missile with a range between and , used against targets "in-theatre". Its range is thus between that of tactical and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The term is a relatively new one, encompassing the former categories of short-range ballistic...

    • Medium-range ballistic missile
      Medium-range ballistic missile
      A medium-range ballistic missile , is a type of ballistic missile with medium range, this last classification depending on the standards of certain organizations. Within the U.S. Department of Defense, a medium range missile is defined by having a maximum range of between 1,000 and 3,000 km1...

    • Intermediate-range ballistic missile
      Intermediate-range ballistic missile
      An intermediate-range ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000–5,500 km , between a medium-range ballistic missile and an intercontinental ballistic missile...

    • Intercontinental ballistic missile
      Intercontinental ballistic missile
      An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery...

    • Submarine-launched ballistic missile
      Submarine-launched ballistic missile
      A submarine-launched ballistic missile is a ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead that can be launched from submarines. Modern variants usually deliver multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles each of which carries a warhead and allows a single launched missile to...

    • Air-launched ballistic missile
      Air-launched ballistic missile
      An air-launched ballistic missile or ALBM is a ballistic missile launched from an aircraft. This class of missile never saw active use. The only known missile of this type that was intended for operational service, the GAM-87 Skybolt, intended to be launched from B-52 Stratofortress and Avro...


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  • A4
    V-2 rocket
    The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...

     (reporting name "V-2 rocket")
  • AA-1 Alkali (NATO reporting name for the Kaliningrad K-5
    Kaliningrad K-5
    The Kaliningrad K-5 , also known as RS-1U or product ShM, was an early Soviet air-to-air missile.-History:...

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  • AA-2 Atoll (NATO reporting name for the Vympel K-13
    Vympel K-13
    The K-13 is an short-range, infrared homing air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. It is similar in appearance and function to the American AIM-9 Sidewinder from which it was reverse-engineered...

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  • AA-3 Anab (NATO reporting name for the Kaliningrad K-8
    Kaliningrad K-8
    The Kaliningrad K-8 was a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union for interceptor aircraft use.Developed by OKB-339/NII-339...

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  • AA-4 Awl (NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9
    Raduga K-9
    The Raduga K-9 was a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. It was designed by MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker Mikoyan-Gurevich. The K-9 was also known as the K-155, and would apparently have had the service designation R-38...

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  • AA-5 Ash (NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-80
    Bisnovat R-4
    The Bisnovat R-4 was an early Soviet long-range air-to-air missile. It was used primarily as the sole weapon of the Tupolev Tu-128 interceptor, matching its RP-S Smerch radar .-History:Development of the R-4 began in 1959,...

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  • AA-6 Acrid (NATO reporting name for the Kaliningrad K-40
    Bisnovat R-40
    The Bisnovat R-40 was a long-range air-to-air missile developed in the 1960s by the Soviet Union specifically for the MiG-25 interceptor, but can also be carried by the later MiG-31...

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  • AA-7 Apex (NATO reporting name for the Kaliningrad K-23
    Vympel R-23
    The Vympel R-23 is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union for fighter aircraft. An updated version with greater range, the R-24, replaced it in service...

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  • AA-8 Aphid (NATO reporting name for the Kaliningrad K-60
    Molniya R-60
    The Molniya R-60 is a lightweight air-to-air missile designed for use by Soviet fighter aircraft. It has been widely exported, and remains in service with the CIS and many other nations....

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  • AA-9 Amos (NATO reporting name for the Vympel R-33
    Vympel R-33
    The Vympel R-33 is a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. It is the primary armament of the MiG-31 interceptor, intended to attack large high-speed targets such as the SR-71 Blackbird, the B-1 Lancer bomber, and the B-52 Stratofortress....

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  • AA-10 Alamo (NATO reporting name for the Vympel R-27)
  • AA-11 Archer (NATO reporting name for the Vympel R-73
    Vympel R-73
    The Vympel R-73 developed by Vympel machine-building design bureau, is the most modern Russian short-range air-to-air missile.-Development:...

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  • AA-12 Adder (NATO reporting name for the Vympel R-77
    Vympel R-77
    The Russian R-77 Missile is a medium range, air-to-air, active radar-guided missile system. It is the Russian counterpart to the American AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, thus gaining a nickname: Amraamski....

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  • AA-13 Arrow
    Vympel R-37
    The Vympel R-37 is a Russian air-to-air missile with an extremely long range. It has also had the names K-37, Izdeliye 610 and R-VD , and the NATO codename 'Andi'.It was designed to shoot down AWACS and other C4ISTAR aircraft whilst keeping the launch platform out of range of any fighters...

     (NATO reporting name for the Vympel R-37
    Vympel R-37
    The Vympel R-37 is a Russian air-to-air missile with an extremely long range. It has also had the names K-37, Izdeliye 610 and R-VD , and the NATO codename 'Andi'.It was designed to shoot down AWACS and other C4ISTAR aircraft whilst keeping the launch platform out of range of any fighters...

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  • AAM-3
    Mitsubishi AAM-3
    The Mitsubishi AAM-3 is a short-range air-to-air missile developed in Japan. It has been operated since 1990, and is expected to ultimately replace the US AIM-9 Sidewinder, the missile upon which the AAM-3 is based....

     (Japanese Type 90 air-to-air missile)
  • AAM-4
    Mitsubishi AAM-4
    The Mitsubishi AAM-4 is a medium-range active radar-guided air-to-air missile developed in Japan and intended to replace the semi-active radar homing AIM-7 Sparrow missile in service...

     (Japanese Type 99 air-to-air missile)
  • AAM-5
    Mitsubishi AAM-5
    The Mitsubishi AAM-5 is a short-range air-to-air missile developed in Japan. According to a report by Janes.com dated January 31, 2007, the XAAM-5 is a prototype that is undergoing testing and is expected to enter service in 2008.-Specifications:* Length: 2,860 mm* Diameter: 126 mm* Wing...

     (Japanese Type 04 air-to-air missile)

  • Abdali-I
    Abdali-I
    For Ahmed Shah Abdali please see Ahmed Shah AbdaliAbdali-I is a short-range ballistic missile , developed by Pakistan and currently in service of Pakistan's armed forces...

     (Pakistani surface-to-surface Short-range ballistic missile
    Short-range ballistic missile
    A short-range ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a range of about 1,000 km or less. They are usually capable of carrying nuclear weapons. In potential regional conflicts, these missiles would be used because of the short distances between some countries and their relative low cost...

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  • ABM-1 Galosh
    ABM-1 Galosh
    ABM-1 Galosh was a Soviet, nuclear tipped surface-to-air anti-ballistic missile . The Galosh is based on the A-35 ABM System using Grushin model A-350 missile. The primary mission was to destroy U.S...

     (NATO reporting name for the Russian/USSR, Vympel
    Vympel NPO
    Vympel NPO is a Russian research and production company based near Moscow, mostly known for their air-to-air missiles. Other projects include SAM and ABM defenses. It was started in the Soviet era as an OKB .-OKB-134 Toropov:...

     A-350 surface-to-air Anti-Ballistic Missile
    Anti-ballistic missile
    An anti-ballistic missile is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles .A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" describes any antimissile system designed to counter...

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  • ABM-3 Gazelle
    53T6
    53T6 is a Russian anti-ballistic missile based upon the A-135 anti-ballistic missile system. It was designed in early 1980s and put in service in 1995....

     (NATO reporting name for the Russian/USSR A-135 surface-to-air Anti-Ballistic Missile
    Anti-ballistic missile
    An anti-ballistic missile is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles .A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" describes any antimissile system designed to counter...

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  • ADM-20 Quail
  • ADM-141 TALD
    ADM-141 TALD
    The ADM-141A/B TALD was an American decoy missile originally built by Brunswick Corporation for the USAF and the Israeli Air Force. Later it transitioned to joint US/Israeli manufacture with Israeli Military Industries Advanced Systems Division ....

  • ADM-144
    ADM-144
    The ADM-144 was a missile project considered by the United States of America.The ADM-144A designation was reserved for an unspecified missile project in 1989. No formal request for allocation of the designation followed, indicating that the project was cancelled in the very early stages....

  • ADM-160 MALD
    ADM-160 MALD
    The ADM-160 MALD is a decoy missile developed by the United States of America.-DARPA MALD program:The Miniature Air-Launched Decoy program was begun in 1995 by DARPA as an effort to develop a small, low cost decoy missile for use in the suppression of enemy defences...

  • AGM-12 Bullpup
    AGM-12 Bullpup
    The AGM-12 Bullpup is an air-to-ground missile which was used on the A-4 Skyhawk, A-6 Intruder, F-105 Thunderchief and F-4 Phantom among others...

  • AGM-22
  • AGM-28 Hound Dog
  • AGM-45 Shrike
    AGM-45 Shrike
    AGM-45 Shrike is an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars. The Shrike was developed by the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake in 1963 by mating a seeker head to the rocket body of an AIM-7 Sparrow. It was phased out by U.S...

  • AGM-48 Skybolt
    AGM-48 Skybolt
    The Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt was an air-launched ballistic missile , equipped with a nuclear warhead, developed by the United States during the late 1950s. The UK joined the program in 1960, intending to use it on their V bomber force...

  • AGM-53 Condor
    AGM-53 Condor
    In 1962, the U.S. Navy issued a requirement for a long-range high-precision air-to-surface missile. The missile, named the AGM-53A Condor, was to use a television guidance system with a data link to the launching aircraft similar to the system of the then projected AGM-62 Walleye.-Development...

  • AGM-62 Walleye
    AGM-62 Walleye
    The AGM-62 Walleye is a television-guided glide bomb which was produced by Martin Marietta and used by the United States armed forces during the 1960s. Most had a 250 lb high-explosive warhead, some had a nuclear warhead...

  • AGM-63
    AGM-63
    The AGM-63 was a missile design produced by the United States of America. It was conceived in March 1962 when the U.S. Navy issued two requirements for long-range Anti-Radiation Missiles to complement the short-range AGM-45 Shrike. The first was to operate over ranges of up to 50 nm , while the...

  • AGM-64 Hornet
    AGM-64 Hornet
    The AGM-64 Hornet is a missile produced by the United States of America.The weapon began life in the early 1960s. North American produced a missile design for the U.S. Air Force's Anti-Tank Guided Aircraft Rocket project...

  • AGM-65 Maverick
    AGM-65 Maverick
    The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground tactical missile designed for close-air support. It is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation and fuel storage facilities....

  • AGM-69 SRAM
    AGM-69 SRAM
    The Boeing AGM-69 SRAM was a nuclear air-to-surface missile designed to replace the older AGM-28 Hound Dog stand-off missile....

  • AGM-76 Falcon
    AGM-76 Falcon
    The AGM-76 Falcon is an air-to-surface missile developed by the United States of America.-Overview:The AGM-76 was developed as a ground attack version of the AIM-47 Falcon air-to-air missile, in much the same way that the AGM-87 Focus was developed from the AIM-9 Sidewinder. It was planned to use...

  • AGM-78 Standard ARM
    AGM-78 Standard ARM
    The AGM-78 Standard ARM was an anti-radiation missile developed by General Dynamics, United States of America.-Overview:Originally developed for the US Navy during the late 1960s, the AGM-78 was created in large part because of the limitations of the AGM-45 Shrike, which suffered from a small...

  • AGM-79 Blue Eye
    AGM-79 Blue Eye
    The AGM-79 Blue Eye was a missile developed by the United States of America.-Overview:The Blue Eye was a development of the AGM-12 Bullpup, intended to provide a more advanced homing system. The Bullpup was manually steered onto the target, whereas the guidance system in the Blue Eye was an optical...

  • AGM-80 Viper
    AGM-80 Viper
    AGM-80 Viper is the designation of an American air to surface missile with infrared seeker and inertial guidance system. Based upon the AGM-12C Bullpup-B, the AGM-80A Viper was developed by Chrysler at the end of the 60s, but was cancelled in the 1970s....

  • AGM-83 Bulldog
    AGM-83 Bulldog
    The AGM-83 Bulldog is a missile produced by the United States of America.The missile has its origins in the AGM-12 Bullpup. This missile used a manual guidance system which required the launching aircraft to continue flying towards the target throughout the missile flight time, making it highly...

  • AGM-84 Harpoon
  • AGM-86 ALCM
    AGM-86 ALCM
    The Boeing AGM-86 ALCM is a U.S. subsonic air-launched cruise missile built by Boeing Company and operated by the United States Air Force. The missiles were developed to increase the effectiveness and survivability of Boeing B-52H Stratofortress bombers...

  • AGM-87 Focus
    AGM-87 Focus
    -Overview:The missile was a development of the AIM-9B Sidewinder air-to-air missile, intended for use against ground targets. Development took place at the China Lake Naval Weapons Center during the late 1960s. The infrared guidance method of the Sidewinder was retained, as the missile was to be...

  • AGM-88 HARM
    AGM-88 HARM
    The AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile is a tactical, air-to-surface missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system...

  • AGM-112
    GBU-15
    Guided Bomb Unit 15 is an unpowered, glide weapon used to destroy high-value enemy targets. It was designed for use with F-15E Strike Eagle, F-111 'Aardvark' and F-4 Phantom II aircraft, but the United States Air Force is currently only deploying it from the F-15E. The GBU-15 has long-range...

  • AGM-114 Hellfire
    AGM-114 Hellfire
    The AGM-114 Hellfire is an air-to-surface missile developed primarily for anti-armor use. It has multi-mission, multi-target precision-strike capability, and can be launched from multiple air, sea, and ground platforms. The Hellfire missile is the primary 100 lb-class air-to-ground precision...

  • AGM-119 Penguin
    Penguin missile
    The Penguin anti-ship missile , made by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway from the early 1970s and continually upgraded since, is a passive-IR seeker based short-to-medium range naval guided missile...

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    Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
    Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace , one of two operating companies of Kongsberg Gruppen of Norway, is a supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications...

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  • AGM-122 Sidearm
    AGM-122 Sidearm
    The AGM-122 Sidearm was an American air-to-surface anti-radiation missile.-Development:The AGM-122 Sidearm was produced by the re-manufacture of AIM-9C missiles which had been taken out of service. The AIM-9C was a semi-active radar homing variant of the Sidewinder, developed for the US Navy's...

  • AGM-123 Skipper
    AGM-123 Skipper
    AGM-123 Skipper II is a short-range laser-guided missile developed by the U.S. Navy.-Overview:The Skipper is a short range missile intended for precision strikes. It is composed of a Mark 83 bomb, fitted with a Paveway kit, and an attached rocket propulsion system to allow it to be dropped at...

  • AGM-124 Wasp
    AGM-124 Wasp
    The AGM-124 Wasp is a missile developed by the United States of America. The Wasp grew out of the 1975 WAAM program initiated by the US Air Force in order to develop a series of new air-to-ground anti-armour weapons for close-support aircraft...

  • AGM-129 ACM
    AGM-129 ACM
    * Missile of the same class** Ra'ad ** TAURUS KEPD 350 ** Storm Shadow -Notes:# Alleged violations of the Antideficiency Act in the Air Force’s procurement of advanced cruise missiles.FILE B-255831, Office of the General Counsel, United States General Accounting Office.# Union Calls for Strike by...

  • AGM-130
    AGM-130
    The AGM-130 is a missile developed by the United States of America.-Overview:The AGM-130 is a powered air-to-surface missile designed for strikes at long range against various targets...

  • AGM-131 SRAM II
    AGM-131 SRAM II
    The SRAM II was a nuclear air-to-surface missile intended as a replacement for the AGM-69 SRAM, but it was cancelled by President George H.W...

  • AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow
    AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow
    The AGM-136A Tacit Rainbow was a United States military anti-radiation missile program run from 1982 to 1991.The requirement was for a low-cost air-launchable system to aid in the destruction of enemy air defense networks...

  • AGM-137 TSSAM
    AGM-137 TSSAM
    -Overview:The United States Air Force began developing the Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile in 1986; the intent was to produce a family of stealthy missiles for the Air Force, Navy and United States Army which would be capable of long range, autonomous guidance, automatic target recognition,...

  • AGM-142 Have Nap
    AGM-142 Have Nap
    The Popeye is an air to ground missile developed and in use by Israel, of which several types have been developed for Israeli and export users. A substantially modified long range cruise missile variant of the Popeye Turbo is believed to be used to arm the Israeli submarine based nuclear forces...

     US codename for imported Popeye
    AGM-142 Have Nap
    The Popeye is an air to ground missile developed and in use by Israel, of which several types have been developed for Israeli and export users. A substantially modified long range cruise missile variant of the Popeye Turbo is believed to be used to arm the Israeli submarine based nuclear forces...

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  • AGM-153
    AGM-153
    The AGM-153 was a missile considered for development by the United States of America.-Overview:The AGM-153 was proposed in 1992 as a new tactical air-to-surface missile. The weapon was to be launched from high and low altitudes against both fixed and mobile targets ranging from bunkers to armoured...

  • AGM-154 JSOW
  • AGM-158 JASSM
    AGM-158 JASSM
    The AGM-158 JASSM is a low observable standoff cruise missile developed in the United States. It is a large, semi-stealthy long-range weapon of the class. The missile's development began in 1995, but a number of problems during testing delayed its introduction into service until 2009...

  • AGM-159 JASSM
    AGM-159 JASSM
    The AGM-159 was a missile design proposed in 1996 by the Boeing company as a contender in the U.S. Air Force's JASSM project. Development halted after Lockheed Martin's AGM-158 was selected for further development in 1998....

  • AGM-169 Joint Common Missile
  • Agni I
  • Agni II
  • Agni III
  • AIM-4 Falcon
    AIM-4 Falcon
    The Hughes AIM-4 Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force.-Development:Development of a guided air-to-air missile began in 1946. Hughes Aircraft was awarded a contract for a subsonic missile under the project designation MX-798, which soon gave way...

  • AIM-7 Sparrow
    AIM-7 Sparrow
    The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as various allied air forces and navies. Sparrow and its derivatives were the West's principal beyond visual...

  • AIM-9 Sidewinder
    AIM-9 Sidewinder
    The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. The missile entered service with United States Air Force in the early 1950s, and variants and upgrades remain in active service with many air forces...

  • AIM-26 Falcon
    AIM-26 Falcon
    The AIM-26 Falcon was a larger, more powerful version of the AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missile built by Hughes. It is the only guided U.S. air-to-air weapon with a nuclear warhead, though the unguided AIR-2 Genie was also nuclear-armed.-Development:...

  • AIM-47 Falcon
    AIM-47 Falcon
    The Hughes AIM-47 Falcon, originally GAR-9, was a very long-range high-performance air-to-air missile that shared the basic design of the earlier AIM-4 Falcon. It was developed in 1958 along with the new Hughes AN/ASG-18 radar fire-control system intended to arm the Mach 3 XF-108 Rapier interceptor...

  • AIM-54 Phoenix
    AIM-54 Phoenix
    The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile , carried in clusters of up to six missiles on F-14 Tomcats, its only launch platform. The Phoenix was the United States' only long-range air-to-air missile. The weapons system based on Phoenix was the world's first to allow...

  • AIM-68 Big Q
    AIM-68 Big Q
    The AIM-68 is an American air-to-air missile design. It never entered production.-Overview:The Big Q began life in 1963 as a replacement for the AIR-2 Genie rocket. The Genie was unguided, and had generally poor flight performance characteristics. The Big Q was to be a much more capable weapon,...

  • AIM-82
    AIM-82
    The AIM-82 was a missile planned by the United States of America but cancelled before any prototypes were built.-Overview:In 1969 the US Air Force was developing the F-15 Eagle fighter. Planned as the ultimate air superiority aircraft, the F-15 was intended to be as perfect as possible in every...

  • AIM-97 Seekbat
    AIM-97 Seekbat
    The AIM-97 Seekbat is a missile developed by the United States of America.-Overview:In the early to mid 1970s the United States was highly concerned by the perceived capabilities of the MiG-25 Foxbat, an aircraft which was known to be capable of speeds in excess of Mach 3 and which carried long...

  • AIM-95 Agile
    AIM-95 Agile
    The AIM-95 Agile was an air-to-air missile developed by the United States of America. It was developed by the US Navy to equip the F-14 Tomcat, replacing the AIM-9 Sidewinder. Around the same time, the US Air Force was designing the AIM-82 to equip their F-15 Eagle, and later dropped their efforts...

  • AIM-120 AMRAAM
    AIM-120 AMRAAM
    The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...

  • AIM-132 ASRAAM
    AIM-132 ASRAAM
    The AIM-132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile is an infrared homing air-to-air missile, produced by MBDA. It is currently in service in the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force , replacing the AIM-9 Sidewinder...

  • AIM-152 AAAM
    AIM-152 AAAM
    The AIM-152 AAAM is a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the United States of America. The program went through a protracted development stage but was never adopted by the United States Air Force, due to the ending of the cold war and the reduction in threat of its perceived primary target...

  • AIR-2 Genie
    AIR-2 Genie
    The Douglas AIR-2 Genie was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5kt W25 nuclear warhead. It was deployed by the United States Air Force and Canada during the Cold War...

  • Akash
  • Alacrán missile (Spanish
    Spanish language
    Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

     for "Scorpion")
  • ALARM
    ALARM
    ALARM is a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the purpose of Suppression of Enemy Air Defense...

  • Al-Hussein
    Al Hussein (missile)
    Al Hussein or al-Husayn is the designation of an Iraqi ballistic missile. The missile was the result of upgrading the Soviet made Scud in order to achieve a longer range...

  • Al-Samoud 2
    Al-Samoud 2
    Al-Samoud was a liquid-fuel ballistic missile developed by Iraq in the years between the Gulf War and the American Invasion.- Development :...

  • Apache (popular name for the MBDA Apache
    MBDA Apache
    The MBDA Apache is a French-developed air-launched anti-runway missile, manufactured by European arms company MBDA. The Apache system is at the base of the SCALP EG concept, notably for the aerodynamics and the stealth feature. The SCALP EG also has a different propulsion system as well as a...

    )
  • AQM-35
  • AQM-37 Jayhawk
    AQM-37 Jayhawk
    -References:***This article contains material that originally came from the web article by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain....

  • AQM-38
    AQM-38
    The AQM-38 was an American target drone, developed by the Radioplane Division of the Northrop Corporation during the 1950s. Extensively used for surface-to-air missile training, over two thousand of the drones were built during its production run, with the missile continuing in use with the United...

  • AQM-41 Petrel
    AQM-41 Petrel
    The AUM-N-2 Petrel was an air-to -surface missile produced by the United States of America. Later variants were converted into AQM-41A target drones.-Design and development:...

  • AQM-60 Kingfisher
    AQM-60 Kingfisher
    The AQM-60 Kingfisher, developed by the Lockheed Corporation, was a target version of the USAF's X-7 test aircraft. The X-7's development began in 1946 after a request from the USAF for a Mach 3 unmanned test vehicle...

  • AQM-81 Firebolt
  • AQM-91 Firefly
  • AQM-103
  • AQM-127 SLAT
    AQM-127 SLAT
    The AQM-127 Supersonic Low-Altitude Target was a target drone developed during the 1980s by Martin Marietta for use by the United States Navy...

  • AQM-128
  • Arrow (missile) (Anti-ballistic)
  • AS-25K
    AS-25K
    The AS-25K is an Argentine air-to-surface missile under development by the CITEFA in 2 versions: air-sea and air-land...

     (anti-ship)
  • AS.30 (designation for the MBDA AS-30
    AS-30L
    The AS-30L is a French short-to-medium range air-to-ground missile which employees laser homing guidance. The AS-30L was a development of the earlier 1970s AS-30 missile, which uses MCLOS guidance via a radio command link between the aircraft to the missile. The only difference between the AS-30...

    )
  • AS.34 Kormoran
    AS.34 Kormoran
    The AS.34 Kormoran is a German-produced Anti-ship missile. The Kormoran uses an inertial guidance system for the midcourse phase, switching to active radar homing during the terminal attack phase. It carries a 165 kg delay-fused warhead, designed for 90mm of penetration prior to detonation...

  • ASM-1
    Type 80 Air-to-Ship Missile
    Type 80 Air-to-Ship Missile is an Air-to-ship missile developed in Japan.The missile is primarily intended as an air launched coastal defence weapon. In fact it is somewhat more capable than this, able to engage both sea and land targets such as buildings and bridges...

     (Japanese Type 80 air-to-ship missile)
  • ASM-2
    Type 93 Air-to-Ship Missile
    The Type 93 Air-to-Ship Missile is an Air-to-ship missile developed in Japan.This missile is used by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force....

     (Japanese Type 93 air-to-ship missile)
  • ASM-135 ASAT
    ASM-135 ASAT
    The ASM-135 ASAT is an air-launched anti-satellite multi stage missile that was developed by Ling-Temco-Vought'sLTV Aerospace division. The ASM-135 was carried exclusively by the United States Air Force 's F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft.-Development:...

  • ASMP
    Air-Sol Moyenne Portée
    The Air-Sol Moyenne Portée is a French air-launched nuclear missile. Part of the Force de frappe, in French nuclear doctrine it is the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons...

  • ASRAAM (project name for the AIM-132 ASRAAM
    AIM-132 ASRAAM
    The AIM-132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile is an infrared homing air-to-air missile, produced by MBDA. It is currently in service in the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force , replacing the AIM-9 Sidewinder...

    )
  • Aster (popular name for the MBDA Aster
    MBDA Aster
    Aster is a family of surface-to-air missiles manufactured by Eurosam, a European consortium consisting of MBDA France, MBDA Italy and the Thales Group .-Overview:The Aster family was developed to perform three distinct missions:...

    )
  • Astra Missile
    Astra missile
    Astra is an active radar homing beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation , India...

  • ATM-1
    Type 64 MAT
    The was a Japanese wire guided anti-tank missile developed during the late 1950s. The missile is a broadly similar to the Swiss/German Cobra and the 9M14 Malyutka...

     (Japanese Type 64 Anti-Tank Missile)
  • ATM-2
    Type 79 Jyu-MAT
    The is a Japanese SACLOS guided anti-tank missile that entered service with the JGSDF in 1984. It was initially issued to coastal defence units, intended to destroy troop and vehicle landing ships as they approached the shoreline. It is also known as KAM-9....

     (Japanese Type 79 Anti-Landing craft and Anti-Tank Missile)
  • ATM-3
    Type 87 Chu-MAT
    The Chū-MAT is a Japanese laser guided anti-tank missile in service with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces. It had been created as a front-line replace for the Type 64 MAT, pressed into service with the Type 79 Jyu-MAT.-History:...

     (Japanese Type 87 Anti-Tank Missile)
  • ATM-4
    Type 96 Multi-Purpose Missile System
    The is an Anti-tank/Landing craft missile used by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. It is the first Japanese missile system that uses a complete digitally controlled interface.- History :...

     (Japanese Type 96 Multi-Purpose Missile System)
  • ATM-5
    Type 01 LMAT
    The is a Japanese man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile. Development began in 1993 at Kawasaki Heavy Industries and was accepted into service in 2001. During development, the missile was designated with the codename XATM-5...

     (Japanese Type 01 Light Anti-Tank Missile)

B

  • Babur
    Babur missile
    Babur , also designated Hatf VII, is the first land attack cruise missile to be developed by Pakistan....

     (Pakistani Cruise Missile)
  • Barak
    Barak SAM
    Barak is an Israeli surface-to-air missile designed to be used as a point-defense missile system on warships, defending against aircraft, anti-ship missiles, and UAVs.-Barak I:...

     naval point defense surface-to-air missile (Israel)
  • BGM-34 Firebee
  • BGM-71 TOW
    BGM-71 TOW
    The BGM-71 TOW is an anti-tank missile. "BGM" is a weapon classification that stands for "Multiple Environment , Surface-Attack , Missile ". "TOW" is an acronym that stands for "Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire command data link, guided missile"...

  • BGM-75 AICBM
    BGM-75 AICBM
    The Advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, also known as Weapons System 120A and ZBGM-75, was a program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, proposed by the United States Air Force in the 1960s...

  • BGM-109 Tomahawk
  • BGM-110
  • Baktar-Shikan (Pakistani Anti-tank Guided Missile)
  • Black Arrow
    Black Arrow
    Black Arrow, officially capitalised BLACK ARROW, was a British satellite carrier rocket. Developed during the 1960s, it was used for four launches between 1969 and 1971...

     (United Kingdom)
  • Bloodhound  UK Surface-to-air
  • Blowpipe
    Blowpipe missile
    The Shorts Blowpipe is a man-portable surface-to-air missile which was in use with the British Army and Royal Marines from 1975. It was superseded by an interim design, Javelin, and later the greatly improved Starstreak missile.-Description:...

      UK Man portable Surface-to-air
  • Blue Steel
    Blue Steel missile
    The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It was the primary British nuclear deterrent weapon until the Royal Navy started operating Polaris missile armed nuclear submarines....

     nuclear stand off missile (United Kingdom)
  • Blue Streak
    Blue Streak missile
    The Blue Streak missile was a British medium range ballistic missile . The Operational Requirement for the missile was issued in 1955 and the design was complete by 1957...

     (United Kingdom)
  • BQM-74 Chukar
    BQM-74 Chukar
    The BQM-74 Chukar is a series of aerial target drones produced by Northrop. The Chukar has gone through three major revisions, including the initial MQM-74A Chukar I, the MQM-74C Chukar II, and the BQM-74C Chukar III...

  • BQM-90
    BQM-90
    The BQM-90 was a target drone proposed by the United States of America.-Overview:The BQM-90 project was begun in 1970 as the ZBQM-90A; the intent was to create a supersonic high-altitude target drone for use in testing air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles...

  • BQM-106 Teleplane
  • BQM-108
  • BQM-111 Firebrand
  • BQM-126
  • BQM-145 Peregrine
    BQM-145 Peregrine
    -References:This article contains material that originally came from the web article by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain....

  • BQM-147 Ex-drone
  • BQM-155 Hunter
  • BQM-167 Skeeter
  • Brakemine
    Brakemine
    Brakemine was an early surface-to-air missile development project carried out in the United Kingdom during World War II. Brakemine used a beam riding guidance system developed at A.C. Cossor, while REME designed the testbed airframes. Trial launches were carried out between 1944 and 1945, and the...

      UK WWII project
  • Brimstone
    Brimstone missile
    Brimstone is an air-launched anti-tank missile developed by MBDA for Britain's Royal Air Force. It was originally intended for "fire and forget" use against mass formations of enemy armour, using a millimetre wave seeker to ensure accuracy even against moving targets...

     (United Kingdom)

C

  • C-602
    C-602
    The C-602, also known as YJ-62, is a Chinese subsonic anti-ship missile that can also be used as a land attack cruise missile.C-602 made its public debut in China at the end of 2006 during the 6th Zhuhai Airshow, though the name begun first appear in 2005. The missile is reportedly deployed...

  • C-701
    C-701
    The C-701 is a Chinese missile that is roughly comparable to the American AGM-65 A/B/D/H Maverick air-to-surface missile. However, the C-701 is smaller and has less than half the weight of the AGM-65 A/B/D/H Maverick.-Design:...

  • C-802
    C-802
    The Yingji-82 or YJ-82 is a Chinese anti-ship missile first unveiled in 1989 by the China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy , also known as the Third Academy...

  • CA 94
  • CA 95
  • CEM-138 Pave Cricket
  • CGM-16/HGM-16 Atlas
    Atlas (missile)
    The SM-65 Atlas was the first intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the United States. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by Convair Division of General Dynamics at the Kearny Mesa assembly plant north of San Diego, California...

  • CIM-10 Bomarc
  • Roketsan Cirit(Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

    )
  • Condor missile
    Condor missile
    The Argentine Condor missile program started in the 1970s as a multinational space research program with significant contract work being performed by German company MBB ....

     (Argentina)
  • CQM-121 Pave Tiger
  • Crotale
    Crotale missile
    The Crotale EDIR is an all-weather short-range anti-air missile, which can be used to intercept low-flight anti-ship missiles and aircraft...

     (France)

D

  • Desna
    R-9 Desna
    The R-9 was a two stage ICBM of the Soviet Union.Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs...

     (popular name for the R-9 Desna
    R-9 Desna
    The R-9 was a two stage ICBM of the Soviet Union.Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs...

     intercontinental ballistic missile)
  • DF-3A
    DF-3A
    The DF-3A is a Chinese liquid-fueled, single-stage, medium-range nuclear ballistic missile that entered service in 1971. DF-3A is the oldest missile in China's inventory and is nearing retirement after four decades of service....

     (NATO name: CSS-2)
  • DF-5
    DF-5
    The Dongfeng 5[Wǔ] or DF-5 is a 3 stage Chinese ICBM. It has a length 32.6 m and a diameter of 3.35 m. It weighs in at 183,000 kilograms and it has an estimated range of 12,000 to 15,000 kilometers. The DF-5 had its first flight in 1971 and was in operational service 10 years later...

  • DF-4
  • DF-15
    DF-15
    The Dong-Feng 15 is a short-range ballistic missile developed by the People's Republic of China. It is the only non-nuclear missile being used by the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Corps. The U.S...

  • DF-21
    DF-21
    The Dong-Feng 21 is a two-stage, solid-propellant, single-warhead medium-range ballistic missile developed by China Changfeng Mechanics and Electronics Technology Academy. Development started in the late 1960s and was completed around 1985-86, but it was not deployed until 1991...

  • DF-25
    DF-25
    DF-25 is a Chinese two-stage, solid-propellant, mobile-launch medium-range ballistic missile . The system entered service with the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army in 2004/2005. It can deliver a single and multiple conventional warheads weighting 2,000 kg over a maximum...

  • DF-31
    DF-31
    The Dong Feng 31 is a long-range, road-mobile, three stage, solid propellant intercontinental ballistic missile in the Dongfeng missile series developed by the People's Republic of China. It is designed to carry a single 1,000kt thermal nuclear warhead. It is a land-based variant of the submarine...

  • DH-10
    DH-10
    The DongHai 10 is a cruise missile developed in the People's Republic of China by the Third Academy by CASIC.According to Janes, the DH-10 is a second-generation land-attack cruise missile , integrated inertial navigation system, GPS, terrain contour mapping system, and digital scene-matching...

  • Dvina (popular name for the R-12 Dvina theatre ballistic missile)

E

  • EGBU-15
  • Elbrus
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

     (popular name for the R-300
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

    , a Scud
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

     variant)
  • ENTAC
    ENTAC
    Entac or MGM-32A was a French MCLOS wire-guided Anti-tank missile. Developed in the early 1950s, the missile entered service with the French army in 1957...

     (France)
  • Enzian missile
  • ERYX
    ERYX
    ERYX is a short-range portable SACLOS-based wire-guided anti-tank missile produced by European company MBDA. It is used by several countries, including the Canadian Army, French, and Norwegian armies. The weapon can also be used against bunkers and pillboxes. It also has some capability in the...

     (France)
  • Euromissile HOT
    Euromissile HOT
    The HOT is a second-generation long-range anti-tank missile system developed originally as an effort to meet a joint German-French Army requirement, by the then German firm Bolkow and the French firm Nord, to replace the older SS.11 wire guided...

     anti-armour missile
  • Exocet
    Exocet
    The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Hundreds were fired in combat during the 1980s.-Etymology:...

     (popular name for the MBDA Exocet)

F

  • Fateh-110
    Fateh-110
    The Fateh-110 , is a single-stage solid-propellant, surface-to-surface missile with at least a 200 km range, and it is produced domestically within Iran, including the solid fuel propellant. The Aerospace Industries Organization is capable of producing many types of liquid and solid propellants...

  • Fireflash
    Fairey Fireflash
    Fireflash was the first British air-to-air guided missile. Constructed by Fairey Aircraft, the missile utilised radar beam-riding guidance. Generally unsuccessful, it served only in small numbers.-Development:...

  • Firestreak
  • FGM-77 Dragon
  • FGM-148 Javelin
    FGM-148 Javelin
    The FGM-148 Javelin is a United States-made man-portable third generation anti-tank missile fielded to replace the Dragon antitank missile.-Overview:Javelin is a fire-and-forget missile with lock-on before launch and automatic self-guidance...

  • Fieseler Fi 103, the V-1
  • FIM-43 Redeye
    FIM-43 Redeye
    The General Dynamics FIM-43 Redeye was a man-portable surface-to-air missile system. It used infrared homing to track its target. Production was terminated in September 1969 after about 85,000 rounds had been built - in anticipation of the Redeye II, which later became the FIM-92 Stinger...

  • FIM-92 Stinger
    FIM-92 Stinger
    The FIM-92 Stinger is a personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile , which can be adapted to fire from ground vehicles and helicopters , developed in the United States and entered into service in 1981. Used by the militaries of the U.S...

  • FQM-117 RCMAT
  • FQM-151 Pointer
  • FROG-7
    FROG-7
    The 9K52 Luna-M is a Soviet short-range ballistic missile complex. The 9M21 missiles are unguided and spin-stabilized. "9K52" is its GRAU designation. Its NATO reporting name is FROG-7....


G

  • Gabriel missile
    Gabriel missile
    Gabriel missiles, created by Israel Aircraft Industries, are a range of anti-ship missiles that use the technique of sea-skimming.- Origin :...

     (Ship-to-ship and air-to-ship variants)
  • Ghauri-I
  • Ghauri-II
    Ghauri-II
    The Ghauri-II is a medium-range ballistic missile . A longer ranged variant of the Ghauri-I, it was developed by increasing the length of the motor assembly and using improved propellants...

  • Ghauri-III
    Ghauri-III
    The Ghauri-III is an intermediate-range ballistic missile being developed by Pakistan. Based on the previous Ghauri I and II missiles, it has three liquid fuel rocket stages. Currently its range is longer than any other ballistic missile in Pakistan's arsenal. The Ghauri-III reportedly started...

  • Global Rocket 1
    Global Rocket 1
    The Global Rocket 1 was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War...

     fractional orbital bombardment system missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-X-10 Scrag)
  • Gorodomlya G-1 - Developed by a German team at Gorodomlya island (57°12'0.06"N, 33° 4'0.02"E) in 1948, based on the V-2 with detachable warhead and integral propellant tanks. (a.k.a. R-10).
  • Gorodomlya G-1M - The G-1 with a more powerful engine proposed in 1949.
  • Gorodomlya G-2 - (a.k.a. R-12) Developed as far as preliminary design the G-2 first stage was to have been powered by a cluster of three engines from the G-1 with a thrust of approx 100tons, the second stage being capable of delivering the warhead 2,000 to 2,500 kilometres. Insurmountable problems with control of the second stage forced abandonment.
  • Gorodomlya G-3 - The G-3 project was to have been a two-stage, G-1 derived rocket, with a winged upper stage similar to the A9 developed by Wehrner Von Braun's team at Peenemunde
    Peenemünde
    The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office ....

    , for a projected range of 8,000 to 10,000 kilometres
  • Gorodomlya G-4 - In April 1949 the Gorodomlya group were given the same requirements as the team at NII-88
    NII-88
    NII-88 was a research bureau for the Soviet space program. The bureau was established on May 13, 1946 and was located at Podlipki, northeast of Moscow. Based on his Plant No...

     (which produced the R-3). The German group designed a 24m (78 ft 9in) tall cone shaped rocket with an empty weight (including a three ton warhead) of seven tons and a launch weight of 70.85 tons, (a.k.a. R-14).
  • Gorodomlya G-5 - Designed in parallel with the G-4, (a.k.a. R-15), another group at Gorodomlya proposed a ramjet powered unmanned bomber boosted by a G-1 or A4 rocket, cruising at 15 km altitude for a range of 3,000 kilometres.
  • GQM-93
  • GQM-94 B-Gull
  • GQM-98 Tern-R
  • GQM-163 Coyote
    GQM-163 Coyote
    The GQM-163 Coyote is a supersonic seaskimming target built by Orbital Sciences and used by the United States Navy as a successor to the MQM-8 Vandal. Orbital's proposal was chosen over the MA-31, a joint venture between Boeing and Zvezda-Strela...

  • GR-1 (designation for the Global Rocket 1
    Global Rocket 1
    The Global Rocket 1 was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War...

    )
  • Green Cheese
    Green Cheese missile
    The Green Cheese missile was a British radar-guided anti-ship tactical nuclear warhead missile project of the 1950s. It was developed by Fairey Aviation to be used by the Fairey Gannet shipborne anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and was originally called Fairey Project 7...

  • Green Flash
  • Griffin (missile)
    Griffin (missile)
    The Griffin is a short-range air-to-surface missile developed by Raytheon for UAVs. It is tube-launched, with a 5.5 inches diameter, weighs 45 pounds, and has a semi-active laser seeker. It has a 13-lb warhead, smaller than the Hellfire typically used by armed UAVs, which has the effect of reducing...

  • Grom
    Grom (missile)
    The Grom is a man-portable air-defense system produced in Poland. It consists of a 72 mm anti-aircraft missile set with a flight speed of 650 m/s, as well as a single-use launcher, re-usable gripstock and thermal battery coolant assembly electric unit...


H

  • Hadès
    Hadès (missile)
    The Hadès system was a short-range ballistic pre-strategic nuclear weapon system designed by France, as a last warning before use of strategic nuclear weapons, in the perspective of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe...

  • Harpoon
  • Hatf-I/IA/IB
    Hatf-I/IA
    Hatf I ) is a Pakistani battlefield range ballistic missile which entered service with the Pakistan Army in the early 1990s. It is deployed as an artillery rocket and has been replaced by the improved Hatf IA and Hatf IB, which have a maximum range of 100 km.Hatf is an Arabic word meaning...

  • Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad)
    Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad)
    The Ra'ad is an air-launched cruise missile developed by Pakistan and operational with the Pakistan Air Force . Though initially launched from a PAF Dassault Mirage III ROSE combat aircraft during testing, the missile is planned to be integrated with and launched from other PAF platforms such as...

  • Hongqi-1 SAM
  • Hongqi-2 SAM
  • Hongnu-5 SAM
  • Hongqi-7 SAM
  • Hongqi-9 SAM
  • Hongqi-10 SAM
  • Hongqi-15 SAM
  • Hongqi-17 SAM
  • Hongqi-18 SAM
  • Hongqi-61 SAM
  • HOT
    Euromissile HOT
    The HOT is a second-generation long-range anti-tank missile system developed originally as an effort to meet a joint German-French Army requirement, by the then German firm Bolkow and the French firm Nord, to replace the older SS.11 wire guided...

     (popular name for the Euromissile HOT
    Euromissile HOT
    The HOT is a second-generation long-range anti-tank missile system developed originally as an effort to meet a joint German-French Army requirement, by the then German firm Bolkow and the French firm Nord, to replace the older SS.11 wire guided...

     anti-armour missile)
  • Hsiung Feng I (HF-1)
    Hsiung Feng I
    The Hsiung Feng I is an anti-ship missile system developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan ROC between 1975 and 1978 and is essentially a derivative of the Israeli Gabriel missile Mk II...

     (ship-to-ship)
  • Hsiung Feng II (HF-2)
    Hsiung Feng II
    The Hsiung Feng II is an anti-ship missile system developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan. The HF-2 is designed to be deployed aboard ships or at land-based facilities, an airborne version has also been developed which can be carried by the ROC Air Force's F-CK...

     (guided multiplatform antiship)
  • Hsiung Feng IIE (HF-2E)
    Hsiung Feng IIE
    The Hsiung Feng IIE is a surface-to-surface cruise missile system developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan and based upon the earlier HF-2 anti-ship missile.-Development:...

     (land attack cruise missile variant of HF-2)
  • Hsiung Feng III (HF-3)
    Hsiung Feng III
    The Hsiung Feng III is the third in the Hsiung Feng series of anti-ship missiles developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan...

     (antiship and/or land attack cruise missile)
  • Hyunmoo
    Hyunmoo
    Hyunmoo was a series of missiles developed by South Korea.Through reverse-engineering of US supplied missiles, South Korea produced two versions of a two-stage, solid-fuel SSM based on the US Nike Hercules surface-to-air missile: NHK-1/Paekkom and NHK-2...


J

  • J-Missile
    J-Missile
    Project J is a Turkish Armed Forces program intended to develop a series of tactical and theatre ballistic missiles with a range of 150 to 300 km....

  • Javelin
    Javelin surface-to-air missile
    Javelin is a British, man-portable surface-to-air missile, formerly used by the British Army and Canadian Army. It can be fired from the shoulder, or from a dedicated launcher known as Javelin LML—Lightweight Multiple Launcher...

      Surface-to-air
  • Jericho missile
    Jericho missile
    Jericho is a general designation given to the Israeli ballistic missiles. The name is taken from the first development contract signed between Israel and Dassault in 1963, with the codename as a reference to the Biblical city of Jericho...

     (Ground-to-ground ballistic)
  • JL-1
    JL-1
    The Julang-1, also known as the JL-1 and in US nomenclature as the CSS-N-3, is China's first submarine launched nuclear ballistic missile.-History:...

  • JL-2
    JL-2
    The JL-2 is a Chinese second-generation intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missile which has a two-stage, solid–liquid-fuelled propulsion design. Accurate specifications of the new missile are hard to obtain and substantiate due to the secretive nature of the program...


K

  • K-5 missile
    Kaliningrad K-5
    The Kaliningrad K-5 , also known as RS-1U or product ShM, was an early Soviet air-to-air missile.-History:...

     (AA-1 Alkali)
  • K-8 missile
    Kaliningrad K-8
    The Kaliningrad K-8 was a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union for interceptor aircraft use.Developed by OKB-339/NII-339...

     (AA-3 Anab)
  • KAN Little Joe
    KAN Little Joe
    The Little Joe, also known by the United States Navy designation KAN, was an early American ship-based, short-range surface-to-air missile, the development of which was initiated in 1945 as a response to the Kamikaze tactics used by the Japanese...

  • K-9 missile
    Raduga K-9
    The Raduga K-9 was a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. It was designed by MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker Mikoyan-Gurevich. The K-9 was also known as the K-155, and would apparently have had the service designation R-38...

     (AA-4 Awl)
  • K-13 missile
    Vympel K-13
    The K-13 is an short-range, infrared homing air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. It is similar in appearance and function to the American AIM-9 Sidewinder from which it was reverse-engineered...

     (AA-2 Atoll)
  • Kaishan-1 SAM
  • Khalije Fars (English: Persian Gulf
    Persian Gulf
    The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...

    ) ASBM

L

  • LAM
    Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System
    The Non-Line of Sight Launch System was a self-contained missile launcher system that was under development by NETFIRES LLC, a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Each Container Launch Unit holds 15 missiles, and a self-locating networked communications system...

     (Loitering Attack Missile)
  • LEM-70 Minuteman ERCS
  • LFK NG
    LFK NG
    LFK NG from Lenkflugkörper Neue Generation , is currently under development by LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme and Diehl BGT Defence as the new short-range surface-to-air missile system for the German Army as a replacement for its former Roland air defence systems and as a part of the army's new SysFla...

  • LGM-25 Titan
    Titan I
    The Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I was the United States' first multistage ICBM . Incorporating the latest design technology when designed and manufactured, the Titan I provided an additional nuclear deterrent to complement the U.S. Air Force's SM-65 Atlas missile...

  • LGM-30 Minuteman
    LGM-30 Minuteman
    The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. nuclear missile, a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile . As of 2010, the version LGM-30G Minuteman-III is the only land-based ICBM in service in the United States...

    • Minuteman I
    • Minuteman II
    • Minuteman III
  • LGM-118 Peacekeeper
  • Lieying-60 SAM
  • LIM-49 Spartan
  • LIM-99
  • LIM-100
  • Little Joe
    KAN Little Joe
    The Little Joe, also known by the United States Navy designation KAN, was an early American ship-based, short-range surface-to-air missile, the development of which was initiated in 1945 as a response to the Kamikaze tactics used by the Japanese...

     (shipborne surface to air)

  • Long March cruise missile

M

  • M1 submarine launched ballistic missile
  • M2
  • M4
    M4 SLBM
    The M4 was a French Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile deployed on the nuclear Le Redoutable class submarines They entered service on the 1 May 1985...

  • M5
  • M20
    M20 SLBM
    The M20 was a French Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile deployed on the nuclear Redoutable class submarines. It was withdrawn from service by 1991.-History:...

  • M45
    M45 SLBM
    The M45 SLBM is the current standard French Navy's submarine launched ballistic missile...

  • M51
    M51 SLBM
    The M51 SLBM is a submarine-launched ballistic missile, built by EADS Astrium Space Transportation, and deployed with the French Navy. Designed to replace the M45 SLBM The M51 SLBM is a submarine-launched ballistic missile, built by EADS Astrium Space Transportation, and deployed with the French...

  • Magic
    R550 Magic
    The R.550 Magic is a short-range missile designed in 1968 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder. On 11 January 1972, a Gloster Meteor of the centre for in-flight trials fired the R550 Magic and shot down a Nord CT20 target drone .Mass-produced from 1976, the Magic...

     (popular name for the R550 Magic
    R550 Magic
    The R.550 Magic is a short-range missile designed in 1968 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder. On 11 January 1972, a Gloster Meteor of the centre for in-flight trials fired the R550 Magic and shot down a Nord CT20 target drone .Mass-produced from 1976, the Magic...

    )
  • Mectron MAA-1 Piranha
    Mectron MAA-1 Piranha
    The MAA-1 Piranha 1 is a short-range infrared homing missile and the first air-to-air missile developed by Brazil for its Air Force and Navy. It was designed to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles in Brazilian service and has since been exported to Colombia and Pakistan.-History:Development of an...

     (short-range air-air infrared homing missile)
  • Malkara
    Malkara missile
    The Malkara missile was one of the earliest anti-tank guided missiles . It was jointly developed by Australia and the United Kingdom between 1951 and 1954, and was in service from 1958 until gradually replaced by the Swingfire missile in the late 1960s...

     (joint Australian/British)
  • MAN-1
    MAN-1
    MAN-1- is an anti-ship missile in development by MECTRON and the Brazilian Navy.It will be an anti-ship missile with a 60-70 km range.-History:...

     (anti-ship missile by Mectron, not in service yet)
  • Martin Pescador MP-1000
    Martin Pescador MP-1000
    The Martin Pescador MP-1000 was an Argentine air-to-surface missile developed by the CITEFA...

     anti-ship ASM (Argentina)
  • MAR-1
    MAR-1
    MAR-1 is an anti-radiation missile developed by Brazil's Mectron and the Aerospace Technical Center of the Brazilian Air Force .-Development and design:...

     (anti-radiation missile by Mectron, in tests)
  • Mathogo
    Mathogo
    The Mathogo is an Argentine wire-guided anti-tank missile developed by CITEFA to supplement and eventually replace the Argentine 105-mm recoilless rifles...

     anti-tank, wire-guided (Argentina)
  • MBDA Apache
    MBDA Apache
    The MBDA Apache is a French-developed air-launched anti-runway missile, manufactured by European arms company MBDA. The Apache system is at the base of the SCALP EG concept, notably for the aerodynamics and the stealth feature. The SCALP EG also has a different propulsion system as well as a...

  • MBDA AS 30
  • MBDA Aster
    MBDA Aster
    Aster is a family of surface-to-air missiles manufactured by Eurosam, a European consortium consisting of MBDA France, MBDA Italy and the Thales Group .-Overview:The Aster family was developed to perform three distinct missions:...

  • MBDA Exocet
  • MBDA Meteor
    MBDA Meteor
    Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile being developed by MBDA. It is to equip the Eurofighter Typhoons of the UK's Royal Air Force , Germany's Luftwaffe, Spain's Ejército del Aire and Italy's Aeronautica Militare Italiana, the British and Italian F-35s , the...

  • Meteor
    MBDA Meteor
    Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile being developed by MBDA. It is to equip the Eurofighter Typhoons of the UK's Royal Air Force , Germany's Luftwaffe, Spain's Ejército del Aire and Italy's Aeronautica Militare Italiana, the British and Italian F-35s , the...

     (popular name for the MBDA Meteor
    MBDA Meteor
    Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile being developed by MBDA. It is to equip the Eurofighter Typhoons of the UK's Royal Air Force , Germany's Luftwaffe, Spain's Ejército del Aire and Italy's Aeronautica Militare Italiana, the British and Italian F-35s , the...

    )
  • MBDA Scalp EG
    Storm Shadow
    Storm Shadow is a British, French and Italian air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by MBDA. Storm Shadow is the British name for the weapon; in French service it is called SCALP EG...

  • MGM-1 Matador
    MGM-1 Matador
    The Martin MGM-1 Matador was the first operational surface-to-surface cruise missile built by the United States. It was similar in concept to the German V-1, but the Matador included a radio link that allowed in-flight course corrections. This allowed accuracy to be maintained over greatly extended...

  • MGM-5 Corporal
    MGM-5 Corporal
    The MGM-5 Corporal missile was the first guided weapon authorized by the United States to carry a nuclear warhead.The first nuclear-authorized unguided rocket was the MGR-1 Honest John...

  • MGM-13 Mace
    MGM-13 Mace
    -See also:-External links:* * * * * * *...

  • MGM-18 Lacrosse
    MGM-18 Lacrosse
    The MGM-18 Lacrosse was a short-ranged tactical ballistic weapon intended for close support of ground troops.Its first flight test was in 1954 and was deployed by the United States Army beginning in 1959, despite being still in the development stage...

  • MGM-21
  • MGM-29 Sergeant
    MGM-29 Sergeant
    The MGM-29 Sergeant was an American short-range, solid fuel, surface-to-surface missile developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Activated by the US Army in 1962 to replace the MGM-5 Corporal it was deployed overseas by 1963, carrying the W52 nuclear warhead or alternatively one of high explosives...

  • MGM-31 Pershing
  • MGM-32 ENTAC
    ENTAC
    Entac or MGM-32A was a French MCLOS wire-guided Anti-tank missile. Developed in the early 1950s, the missile entered service with the French army in 1957...

  • MGM-51 Shillelagh
  • MGM-52 Lance
  • MGM-140 ATACMS
  • MGM-134 Midgetman
  • MGM-157 EFOGM
  • MGM-164 ATACMS II
  • MGM-166 LOSAT
    MGM-166 LOSAT
    The MGM-166 LOSAT was a U.S. surface-to-surface missile system designed by Lockheed Martin to defeat tanks and other individual targets. Instead of using a High Explosive Anti-Tank warhead like other anti-tank missiles, the LOSAT employed a solid steel kinetic energy penetrator to punch through...

  • MGM-168 ATAMCS Block IVA
  • MGR-1 Honest John
    MGR-1 Honest John
    The MGR-1 Honest John rocket was the first nuclear-capable surface-to-surface rocket in the US arsenal.The first nuclear-authorized guided missile was the MGM-5 Corporal. Designated Artillery Rocket XM31, the first such rocket was tested 29 June 1951 and the first production rounds were delivered...

  • MICA
    MBDA MICA
    The MBDA MICA is an anti-air multi-target, all weather, fire-and-forget short and medium-range missile system. It is intended for use both by air platforms as individual missiles as well as ground units and ships, which can be equipped with the rapid fire MICA Vertical Launch System...

     (project name for the MBDA MICA
    MBDA MICA
    The MBDA MICA is an anti-air multi-target, all weather, fire-and-forget short and medium-range missile system. It is intended for use both by air platforms as individual missiles as well as ground units and ships, which can be equipped with the rapid fire MICA Vertical Launch System...

    )
  • MILAN
    MILAN
    MILAN " is French and German for "kite bird") is a European anti-tank guided missile. Design of the MILAN started in 1962. It was ready for trials in 1971, and was accepted for service in 1972. It is a wire guided SACLOS missile, which means the sight of the launch unit has to be aimed at the...

  • MIM-3 Nike-Ajax
    Project Nike
    Project Nike was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953...

  • MIM-14 Nike-Hercules
    Project Nike
    Project Nike was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953...

  • MIM-23 Hawk
    MIM-23 Hawk
    The Raytheon MIM-23 Hawk is a U.S. medium range surface-to-air missile. The Hawk was initially designed to destroy aircraft and was later adapted to destroy other missiles in flight. The missile entered service in 1960, and a program of extensive upgrades has kept it from becoming obsolete. It was...

  • MIM-46 Mauler
    MIM-46 Mauler
    The General Dynamics MIM-46 Mauler was a self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system designed to a late 1950s US Army requirement for a system to combat low-flying high-performance tactical fighters and short-range ballistic missiles...

  • MIM-72 Chaparral
  • MIM-104 Patriot
    MIM-104 Patriot
    The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. It is manufactured by the Raytheon Company of the United States. The Patriot System replaced the Nike Hercules system as the U.S. Army's primary High to Medium...

  • MIM-115 Roland
  • MIM-146 ADATS
  • MISTRAL
    Mistral
    Mistral commonly refers to the Mistral in southern France and SardiniaMistral may also refer to:* Mistral, various ships of the French Navy, including:** Mistral class amphibious assault ship of the French Navy...

  • Mokopa
    Mokopa
    The Mokopa is a South African air-to-ground missile, designed primarily for use as an anti-tank weapon. It is currently in its final stages of development, and is being integrated onto the South African Air Force's Rooivalk attack helicopters. The missile is produced by Denel Dynamics, formerly...

  • Molodets (popular name for the RT-23 Molodets
    RT-23 Molodets
    The RT-23 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...

    )
  • MQM-33
  • MQM-36 Shelduck
  • MQM-39
  • MQM-40 Firefly
  • MQM-42 Redhead/Roadrunner
  • MQM-57 Falconer
  • MQM-58 Overseer
  • MQM-61 Cardinal
  • MQM-74 Chukar
  • MQM-105 Aquila
    MQM-105 Aquila
    -Sources:* This article contains material that originally came from the web article by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain.* Yenne, William , Yenne, Bill, Attack of the Drones: A History of Unmanned Aerial Combat, Zenith Imprint, 2004 ISBN 0760318255...

  • MQM-107 Streaker
  • MQM-143 RPVT
  • MR-UR-100 Sotka intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-17 Spanker)
  • MX: See LGM-118 Peacekeeper

N

  • Nag Missile
    Nag missile
    Nag is a Fourth generation "Fire-and-forget" anti-tank missile developed in India. It is one of five missile systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program...

     (Indian Anti-Tank Guided Missile)
  • Nirbhay
  • Naval Strike Missile
    Naval Strike Missile
    The Naval Strike Missile is an anti-ship and land-attack missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace , and whose initial serial production contract was signed in June 2007. It has been chosen by the Royal Norwegian Navy for its new Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and...

     (NSM)
  • Nike
    Project Nike
    Project Nike was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953...

  • Nodong-1
    Nodong-1
    The Rodong-1 is a single stage, mobile liquid propellant medium range ballistic missile developed by North Korea...

  • Nuclear bunker buster
    Nuclear bunker buster
    Bunker-busting nuclear weapons, also known as earth-penetrating weapons , are a type of nuclear weapon designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to a target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers buried deep in the ground...


P

  • P-1 missile (SS-N-1 Scrubber)
  • P-700 Granit
    P-700 Granit
    The P-700 Granit is a Soviet and Russian naval anti-ship cruise missile. Its GRAU designation is 3M45, its NATO reporting name SS-N-19 Shipwreck...

     (SS-N-19 Shipwreck)
  • PARS 3 LR
    Trigat
    The PARS 3 LR in German service, also known as TRIGAT-LR and AC 3G in French, is a currently in development fire-and-forget missile which can be used against air or ground targets...

  • PAD
  • Penguin
    Penguin missile
    The Penguin anti-ship missile , made by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway from the early 1970s and continually upgraded since, is a passive-IR seeker based short-to-medium range naval guided missile...

     (U.S. designation: AGM-119)
  • PenLung-9 SAM
  • PL-10
  • Polyphem
    Polyphem missile
    The Polyphem was a proposed light-weight fibre-optic wire-guided surface-to-surface missile with a range of 60 km.It uses a sealed round, a solid propellant booster rocket to launch the missile out of its canister to an initial height, so that the wings and control surfaces can unfold, and a more...

  • PGM-11 Redstone
  • PGM-17 Thor
    PGM-17 Thor
    Thor was the first operational ballistic missile of the U.S. Air Force . Named after the Norse god of thunder, it was deployed in the United Kingdom between 1959 and September 1963 as an intermediate range ballistic missile with thermonuclear warheads. Thor was in height and in diameter. It was...

  • PGM-19 Jupiter
  • Pioneer (popular name for the RT-21M Pioner)
  • Pluton
    Pluton (missile)
    The Pluton missile was a French nuclear-armed short-range ballistic missile system launched from a transporter erector launcher platform mounted on an AMX 30 tank chassis. It was designed to provide the tactical part of French nuclear deterrence during the Cold War.The Pluton came in replacement...

  • Popeye missile (Standoff. U.S. designation AGM-142 Have Nap
    AGM-142 Have Nap
    The Popeye is an air to ground missile developed and in use by Israel, of which several types have been developed for Israeli and export users. A substantially modified long range cruise missile variant of the Popeye Turbo is believed to be used to arm the Israeli submarine based nuclear forces...

    . A cruise missile variant purportedly exists as well)
  • PQM-56
  • PQM-102 Delta Dagger
  • PQM-149 UAV-SR
  • PQM-150 UAV-SR
  • Prithvi missile
    Prithvi missile
    Prithvi is a tactical surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile developed by DRDO of India under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.- Development and History :...

  • Prithvi II missile
  • Prithvi III missile
  • Python 5 (popular name for Rafael Python 5)

Q

  • Qassam rocket
    Qassam rocket
    The Qassam rocket is a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. Three models have been produced and used between 2001 and 2011....

  • Qiam 1
    Qiam 1
    Qiam 1 is an Iranian missile resembling Shahab-3 variations while according to photos, it is smaller than Shahab-3. It has been tested on 20 Aug 2010 and is claimed to have more chance to evade interception because unlike other Shahab variants, it does not have fins...

     Iranian surface to surface missile.
  • QW-1 SAM
  • QW-2 SAM

R

  • R-1
    R-1 (missile)
    The R-1 rocket was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. Even though it was a copy, it was manufactured using Soviet industrial plants and gave the Soviets valuable experience which later enabled the USSR to construct its own much more capable rockets.In 1945 the...

     theatre ballistic missile (SS-1 Scunner)
  • R-2 theatre ballistic missile (SS-2 Sibling)
  • R-4 missile
    Bisnovat R-4
    The Bisnovat R-4 was an early Soviet long-range air-to-air missile. It was used primarily as the sole weapon of the Tupolev Tu-128 interceptor, matching its RP-S Smerch radar .-History:Development of the R-4 began in 1959,...

     (AA-5 Ash)
  • R-5 theatre ballistic missile (SS-3 Shyster)
  • R-7 Semyorka
    R-7 Semyorka
    The R-7 was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1961, but was never deployed operationally. A derivative, the R-7A, was deployed from 1960 to 1968...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR/Russia; Cold War) (NATO name SS-6 Sapwood)
  • R-9 Desna
    R-9 Desna
    The R-9 was a two stage ICBM of the Soviet Union.Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR/Russia; Cold War) (NATO name SS-8 Sasin)
  • R-11
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

     tactical ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-1b Scud)
  • R-12 Dvina theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-4 Sandal)
  • R-13 submarine launched ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-N-4 Sark)
  • R-14 Usovaya
    R-14 Usovaya
    The R-14 Chusovaya was a theatre ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was given the NATO reporting name SS-5 Skean and was known by GRAU index 8K65. It was designed by Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel. Chusovaya is the name of a river in Russia...

     theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-5 Skean)
  • R-15 submarine ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War)
  • R-16
    R-16
    The R-16 was the first successful intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union. In the West it was known by the NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler, and within Russia, it carried the GRAU index 8K64.- Description :...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-7 Saddler)
  • R-17E, variant of Russian Scud B
  • R-21 submarine-launched ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-N-5 Serb)
  • R-23 missile
    Vympel R-23
    The Vympel R-23 is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union for fighter aircraft. An updated version with greater range, the R-24, replaced it in service...

     (AA-7 Apex)
  • R-26 intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (mistakenly applied NATO name SS-8 Sasin)
  • R-27
    R-27 (missile)
    The R-27 Zyb was a submarine-launched ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union and employed by the Soviet Navy from 1968 through 1988. NATO assigned the missile the reporting name SS-N-6 Serb. In the USSR, it was given the GRAU index 4K10...

     submarine-launched ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-N-6 Serb)
  • R-27 missile (AA-10 Alamo)
  • R-33 missile
    Vympel R-33
    The Vympel R-33 is a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. It is the primary armament of the MiG-31 interceptor, intended to attack large high-speed targets such as the SR-71 Blackbird, the B-1 Lancer bomber, and the B-52 Stratofortress....

     (AA-9 Amos)
  • R-36 intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR/Ukraine) (NATO name SS-9 Scarp and SS-18 Satan)
  • R-39 missile
    R-39 missile
    The R-39 Rif, or Rif-Ma was a Russian submarine launched ballistic missile . It had the NATO reporting name of SS-N-20 Sturgeon and the bilateral arms control designation RSM-52...

     (SS-N-20 Sturgeon)
  • R-40 missile
    Bisnovat R-40
    The Bisnovat R-40 was a long-range air-to-air missile developed in the 1960s by the Soviet Union specifically for the MiG-25 interceptor, but can also be carried by the later MiG-31...

     (AA-6 Acrid)
  • R-46 orbital launcher and intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War)
  • R-60 missile
    Molniya R-60
    The Molniya R-60 is a lightweight air-to-air missile designed for use by Soviet fighter aircraft. It has been widely exported, and remains in service with the CIS and many other nations....

     (AA-8 Aphid)
  • R-73 missile
    Vympel R-73
    The Vympel R-73 developed by Vympel machine-building design bureau, is the most modern Russian short-range air-to-air missile.-Development:...

     (AA-11 Archer)
  • R-77 missile
    Vympel R-77
    The Russian R-77 Missile is a medium range, air-to-air, active radar-guided missile system. It is the Russian counterpart to the American AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, thus gaining a nickname: Amraamski....

     (AA-12 Adder)
  • R-300 Elbrus theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-1c Scud)
  • R-400 Oka
    R-400 Oka
    The OTR-23 Oka was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War to replace the obsolete SS-1C 'Scud B'. It carried the GRAU index 9K714 and was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-23 Spider...

     theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-23 Spider)
  • R550 Magic
    R550 Magic
    The R.550 Magic is a short-range missile designed in 1968 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder. On 11 January 1972, a Gloster Meteor of the centre for in-flight trials fired the R550 Magic and shot down a Nord CT20 target drone .Mass-produced from 1976, the Magic...

  • Ra'ad
    Ra'ad
    The Ra'ad is an air-launched cruise missile developed by Pakistan and operational with the Pakistan Air Force . Though initially launched from a PAF Dassault Mirage III ROSE combat aircraft during testing, the missile is planned to be integrated with and launched from other PAF platforms such as...

     Hataf VIII (Pakistani Cruise Missile)
  • Rapier
    Rapier missile
    Rapier is a British surface-to-air missile developed for the British Army and Royal Air Force. Entering service in 1971, it eventually replaced all other anti-aircraft weapons in Army service; guns for low-altitude targets, and the English Electric Thunderbird, used against longer-range and...

      Surface-to-air
  • Rafael Python 5 (Air-to-air)
  • RBS-15
  • RBS-23
  • RBS-70
  • RBS-77
  • RBS-90
  • Red Top
    Hawker Siddeley Red Top
    The Hawker Siddeley Red Top was the third indigenous British air-to-air missile to enter service, following the de Havilland Firestreak and limited-service Fairey Fireflash.-Development:...

      Air-to-air
  • RGM-6 Regulus
  • RGM-15 Regulus II
  • RGM-59 Taurus
    RGM-59 Taurus
    The RGM-59 Taurus was an American project, conducted by the United States Navy, that was intended to develop a surface-to-surface missile for use as a fire support weapon during amphibious landings, replacing heavy-caliber naval guns...

  • RGM-165 LASM
  • RIM-2 Terrier
    RIM-2 Terrier
    The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile , and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships. Originally, the Terrier had a launch thrust of 23 kN , and weight of 1392 kg...

  • RIM-7 Sea Sparrow
    RIM-7 Sea Sparrow
    RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a US ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system, primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles...

  • RIM-8 Talos
    RIM-8 Talos
    The Bendix RIM-8 Talos was a long-range naval surface-to-air missile, and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships. The Talos used radar beam riding for guidance to the vicinity of its target, and semiactive radar homing for terminal guidance...

  • RIM-24 Tartar
    RIM-24 Tartar
    The General Dynamics RIM-24 Tartar was a medium-range naval surface-to-air missile , and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships...

  • RIM-50 Typhon LR
    RIM-50 Typhon
    The RIM-50 Typhon LR was a missile that was intended to be a Terrier missile–sized replacement to the Talos missile to be used with the Typhon combat system. The RIM-50 was canceled in 1963 along with the medium range RIM-55, when the Typhon combat system was canceled...

  • RIM-55 Typhon MR
  • RIM-66 Standard Missile-1
    RIM-66 Standard
    The RIM-66 Standard MR is a medium range surface-to-air missile originally developed for the United States Navy . The SM-1 was developed as a replacement for the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-24 Tartar that were deployed in the 1950s on a variety of USN ships...

  • RIM-66 Standard Missile-2
    RIM-66 Standard
    The RIM-66 Standard MR is a medium range surface-to-air missile originally developed for the United States Navy . The SM-1 was developed as a replacement for the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-24 Tartar that were deployed in the 1950s on a variety of USN ships...

  • RIM-67 Standard Missile-1 ER
    RIM-67 Standard
    The RIM-67 Standard ER is an extended range surface-to-air missile and anti ship missile originally developed for the United States Navy...

  • RIM-67 Standard Missile-2 ER
    RIM-67 Standard
    The RIM-67 Standard ER is an extended range surface-to-air missile and anti ship missile originally developed for the United States Navy...

  • RIM-85
    RIM-85
    RIM-85 was a short-lived project by the United States Navy to develop a surface-to-air missile for the defense of naval vessels. Developed during the late 1960s, the project was cancelled before the start of detailed design work....

  • RIM-101
    RIM-101
    RIM-101 was a short-lived project by the United States Navy to develop a surface-to-air missile for the defense of naval vessels. Developed during the early 1970s, the project, possibly derived from the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, was cancelled before the start of detailed design work.-Development and...

  • RIM-113
    RIM-113
    The RIM-113 Shipboard Intermediate Range Combat System, or SIRCS, was an advanced surface-to-air missile proposed by the United States Navy in the 1970s...

  • RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
    RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
    The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the American, German, South Korean, Greek, Turkish, Saudi and Egyptian navies. It was intended originally and used primarily as a point-defense weapon against anti-ship cruise missiles...

  • RIM-156 Standard Missile-2ER Block IV
  • RIM-161 Standard Missile-3
    RIM-161 Standard Missile 3
    The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 is a ship-based missile system used by the US Navy to intercept short-to intermediate-range ballistic missiles as a part of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Although primarily designed as an anti-ballistic missile, the SM-3 has also been employed in an...

  • RIM-162 ESSM
  • ROLAND
    Roland (air defence)
    The Roland is a Franco-German mobile short-range surface-to-air missile system. The Roland was also purchased by the U.S. Army as one of very few foreign SAM systems....

     air defence missile
  • RS-24
    RS-24
    The RS-24 Yars is a Russian MIRV-equipped, thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile first tested on May 29, 2007 after a secret military R&D project, to replace the older R-36 and UR-100N that have been already used almost for 50 years. RS-24 is a missile that is heavier than the current...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Modern) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6700585.stm
  • RSA-1
  • RSA-2
  • RSA-3
  • RSA-4
  • RT-1
    RT-1
    The RT-1 was an early intercontinental ballistic missile design that was tested but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was not assigned a NATO reporting name, but did carry the industry designation 8K95....

     theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War)
  • RT-2
    RT-2
    The RT-2 was an intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union from 1969 through 1996. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-13 Savage and carried the industry designation 8K98. It was probably designed by the V.N...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War) (SS-13 Savage)
  • RT-2PM Topol intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Modern)(SS-25 Sickle)
  • RT-2UTTH Topol M
    RT-2UTTH Topol M
    The RT-2UTTKh «Topol-M» is one of the most recent intercontinental ballistic missiles to be deployed by Russia , and the first to be developed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....

     intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Modern) (SS-27)
  • RT-15
    RT-15
    The RT-15 was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-14 Scamp and carried the industry designation 8K96....

     mobile land launced theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-14 Scamp)
  • RT-20
    RT-20 (missile)
    The RT-20 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Control system for it was designed at NPO "Electropribor"...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-15 Scrooge)
  • RT-21 Temp 2S
    RT-21 Temp 2S
    The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

     intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-16 Sinner)
  • RT-21M Pioner theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-20 Saber)
  • RT-23 Molodets
    RT-23 Molodets
    The RT-23 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...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Modern) (SS-24 Scalpel)
  • RT-25
    RT-25
    The RT-25 was a medium-range ballistic missile program that was proposed by not developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It did not receive a NATO reporting name but did have an industry designation of 8K97.- External links :*...

     theatre ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War)
  • RUM-139 VL-Asroc
    RUM-139 VL-Asroc
    The RUM-139 VL-ASROC is an anti-submarine missile in the ASROC family, currently built by the Lockheed Martin company for the U.S. Navy.The design and development of the missile began in 1983 when the Goodyear Aerospace company was contracted by the U.S. Navy to develop a ship-launched...

  • RUR-5 Asroc
    ASROC
    ASROC is an all-weather, all sea-conditions anti-submarine missile system. Developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually installed on over 200 USN surface ships, specifically cruisers, destroyers, and frigates...


S

  • SA-2 Guideline
  • SA-3 Goa
  • SA-4 Ganef
  • SA-5 Gammon
  • SA-6 Gainful
    SA-6 Gainful
    The 2K12 "Kub" mobile surface-to-air missile system is a Soviet low to medium-level air defence system designed to protect ground forces from air attack. "2К12" is the GRAU designation of the system...

  • SA-7 Grail
  • SA-8 Gecko
  • SA-9 Gaskin
    SA-9 Gaskin
    The warhead was primarily intended to impact the target directly, and had contact and magnetic fuzes, but also contained a back-up optical proximity fuze to detonate the warhead in case of a near miss...

  • SA-10 Grumble
  • SA-11 Gadfly
  • SA-12 Gladiator/Giant
  • SA-13 Gopher
    SA-13 Gopher
    The 9K35 Strela-10 is a highly mobile, visually aimed, optical/infra-red guided, low-altitude, short-range surface to air missile system. "9K35" is its GRAU designation; its NATO reporting name is SA-13 "Gopher".-Development:...

  • SA-14 Gremlin
  • SA-15 Gauntlet
  • SA-16 Gimlet
  • SA-17 Grizzly
  • SA-18 Grouse
    SA-18 Grouse
    The 9K38 Igla is a Russian/Soviet man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile . "9K38" is the Russian GRAU designation of the system...

  • SA-19 Grisom
  • SA-20 Gargoyle
  • SA-X-21 Growler
  • SA-N-3 Goblet
  • Saber (SS-20) (NATO reporting name for the RT-21M Pioner)
  • Saddler (SS-7
    R-16
    The R-16 was the first successful intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union. In the West it was known by the NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler, and within Russia, it carried the GRAU index 8K64.- Description :...

    ) (NATO reporting name for the R-16 rocket)
  • Samid
  • Saegheh
    Saegheh
    The Saegheh or "Saeqeh-1" and "Saeqeh-2" is a short-range surface-to-surface missile, and possibly an unmanned aerial vehicle developed indigenously by Iran...

  • Sagarika
    Sagarika
    K-15 Sagarika is a nuclear-capable submarine launched ballistic missile with a range of .-Development:...

     (SLBM) (Indian Ballistic Missile
    Ballistic missile
    A ballistic missile is a missile that follows a sub-orbital ballistic flightpath with the objective of delivering one or more warheads to a predetermined target. The missile is only guided during the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight and its course is subsequently governed by the...

    )
  • Sajjil
    Sajjil
    The Sejil missile , also known as Sajjil, is a family of Iranian solid-fueled ballistic missiles. The Sejil are replacements for the Shahab liquid-fueled ballistic missiles...

     (MRBM) (Iranian Ballistic Missile
    Ballistic missile
    A ballistic missile is a missile that follows a sub-orbital ballistic flightpath with the objective of delivering one or more warheads to a predetermined target. The missile is only guided during the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight and its course is subsequently governed by the...

    )
  • Sandal (SS-4) (NATO reporting name for the R-12 Dvina)
  • Sapwood (SS-6) (NATO reporting name for the R-7 Semyorka
    R-7 Semyorka
    The R-7 was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1961, but was never deployed operationally. A derivative, the R-7A, was deployed from 1960 to 1968...

    )
  • Sark
    Sark
    Sark is a small island in the Channel Islands in southwestern English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. It is a royal fief, geographically located in the Channel Islands in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population...

     (SS-N-4) (NATO reporting name for the R-13)
  • Sasin (SS-8) (NATO reporting name for the R-9 Desna
    R-9 Desna
    The R-9 was a two stage ICBM of the Soviet Union.Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs...

    , also mistakenly applied to the R-26)
  • Satan
    Satan
    Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

     (SS-18) (NATO reporting name for the R-36M)
  • Savage (SS-13) (NATO reporting name for the RT-2
    RT-2
    The RT-2 was an intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union from 1969 through 1996. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-13 Savage and carried the industry designation 8K98. It was probably designed by the V.N...

    )
  • Scaleboard (SS-12 / SS-22) (NATO reporting name for the TR-1 Temp
    TR-1 Temp
    The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76...

    )
  • Scalpel
    Scalpel
    A scalpel, or lancet, is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery, anatomical dissection, and various arts and crafts . Scalpels may be single-use disposable or re-usable. Re-usable scalpels can have attached, resharpenable blades or, more commonly, non-attached, replaceable...

     (SS-24) (NATO reporting name for the RT-23 Molodets
    RT-23 Molodets
    The RT-23 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...

    )
  • Scamp (SS-14)
    RT-15
    The RT-15 was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-14 Scamp and carried the industry designation 8K96....

     (NATO reporting name for the RT-15)
  • Scapegoat
    Scapegoat
    Scapegoating is the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals , individuals against groups , groups against individuals , and groups against groups Scapegoating is the practice of singling out any...

     (SS-14) (alternate NATO reporting name for the RT-15
    RT-15
    The RT-15 was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-14 Scamp and carried the industry designation 8K96....

    )
  • Scarp (SS-9) (NATO reporting name for the R-36)
  • Scrag
    Global Rocket 1
    The Global Rocket 1 was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War...

     (SS-X-10) (NATO reporting name for the Global Rocket 1
    Global Rocket 1
    The Global Rocket 1 was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War...

     and UR-200
    UR-200
    The UR-200 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by OKB-52 of Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey in the Soviet Union. It was known during the Cold War by the NATO reporting name SS-10 Scrag and internally by the GRAU index 8K81...

    )
  • Scrooge
    RT-20 (missile)
    The RT-20 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Control system for it was designed at NPO "Electropribor"...

     (SS-15) (NATO reporting name for the RT-20
    RT-20 (missile)
    The RT-20 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Control system for it was designed at NPO "Electropribor"...

    )
  • Scud
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

     (SS-1b/SS-1c) (NATO reporting name for the R-11
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

     and R-300 Elbrus family)
  • Scunner (SS-1) (NATO reporting name for the R-1
    R-1 (missile)
    The R-1 rocket was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. Even though it was a copy, it was manufactured using Soviet industrial plants and gave the Soviets valuable experience which later enabled the USSR to construct its own much more capable rockets.In 1945 the...

    )
  • SD 10 (Pakistani Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile)
  • Sea Cat
    Sea Cat missile
    Sea Cat was a British short-range surface to air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was the world's first operational shipboard point-defence missile system and was designed so that the Bofors guns could be replaced with minimum...

  • Sea Dart
    Sea Dart missile
    Sea Dart or Guided Weapon System 30 is a British surface-to-air missile system designed by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and built by British Aerospace from 1977...

  • Sea Eagle
  • Sea Skua
    Sea Skua
    The Sea Skua is a British lightweight short-range air-to-surface missile designed for use from helicopters against ships. It is primarily used by the Royal Navy on the Westland Lynx helicopter, although Kuwait uses it in a shore battery and on their Umm Al Maradem fast attack craft.The British...

  • Sea Slug
    Sea Slug missile
    Sea Slug was a first generation surface-to-air missile designed by Armstrong Whitworth for use by the Royal Navy...

      Surface-to-air
  • Sea Wolf
    Sea Wolf missile
    Sea Wolf is a naval guided missile system designed and built by BAC, later to become British Aerospace Dynamics . It is an automated point-defence weapon system designed as a final line of defence against both sea-skimming and high angle anti-ship missiles and aircraft...

      Surface-to-air
  • Sego
    UR-100
    The UR-100 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1996. УР in its designation stands for "универсальная ракета"...

     (SS-11
    UR-100
    The UR-100 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1996. УР in its designation stands for "универсальная ракета"...

    ) (NATO reporting name for the UR-100
    UR-100
    The UR-100 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1996. УР in its designation stands for "универсальная ракета"...

    )
  • Semyorka (popular name for the R-7 Semyorka
    R-7 Semyorka
    The R-7 was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1961, but was never deployed operationally. A derivative, the R-7A, was deployed from 1960 to 1968...

    )
  • Serb (SS-N-5) (NATO reporting name for the R-21)
  • Serb (SS-N-6) (NATO reporting name for the R-27
    R-27 (missile)
    The R-27 Zyb was a submarine-launched ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union and employed by the Soviet Navy from 1968 through 1988. NATO assigned the missile the reporting name SS-N-6 Serb. In the USSR, it was given the GRAU index 4K10...

    )
  • Shahab-1
  • Shahab-2
    Shahab-2
    The Shahab-2 is the successor to the Iranian Shahab-1 missile.The missile has a CEP of 50 m. On November 2, 2006, Iran fired unarmed missiles to begin 10 days of military simulations. Iranian state television reported "dozens of missiles were fired including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 missiles...

  • Shahab-3
    Shahab-3
    The Shahab-3 is a medium-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and based on the Nodong-1. The Shahab-3 has a range of ; a MRBM variant can now reach...

  • Shahab-3D
  • Shahab-4
    Shahab-4
    The Shahab-4 aka IRIS liquid propelled missile is an alleged, and possibly fictional, programme for Iran's first missile to bring satellites into orbit....

  • Shahab-5
    Shahab-5
    Shahab-5 is an alleged Iranian long-range ballistic missile. The name Shahab is a class of Iranian missiles, with a service time of 1988 to present, which comes in six variants: Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, Shahab-4, Shahab-5, Shahab-6.-See also:...

  • Shahab-6
    Shahab-6
    Shahab-6 is the designation of an alleged and possibly fictional Iranian long-range ballistic missile project alleged to exist by Israeli sources, and supposed to be an extension of the Shahab series of missiles, and first reported to the world by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1997....

  • Shaheen-I (Pakistani MRBM)
  • Shaheen-II
    Shaheen-II
    The Shaheen-II is an medium range ballistic missile developed by NESCOM's National Defence Complex of Pakistan. The Shaheen missile series is named after a falcon that lives in the mountains of Pakistan...

     (Pakistani IRBM)
  • Shaheen-III
    Shaheen-III
    The Shaheen III is a Pakistani intermediate-range ballistic missile speculated to be in development with a range of 4000-4500 km. It is a member of the solid-fueled Shaheen series missile family and is envisioned to replace the less advanced liquid-fueled Ghauri-III system whose development was...

     (Pakistani IRBM)
  • Shavit
    Shavit
    Shavit is a space launch vehicle produced by Israel to launch small satellites into low earth orbit. It was first launched on September 19, 1988 , making Israel the eighth country to have a space launch capability after the USSR, United States, France, Japan, People's Republic of China, United...

     (Space launcher)
  • Shkval (VA-111)
  • Shaurya missile
    Shaurya missile
    The Shaurya missile is a canister launched Hypersonic surface-to-surface tactical missile developed by the Indian Defence Research and Development Organization for use by the Indian Armed Forces. It has a range of between 750 to 1900 km and is capable of carrying a payload of one ton...

     (Indian)
  • Shyster (SS-3) (NATO reporting name for the R-5)
  • Sibling
    Sibling
    Siblings are people who share at least one parent. A male sibling is called a brother; and a female sibling is called a sister. In most societies throughout the world, siblings usually grow up together and spend a good deal of their childhood socializing with one another...

     (SS-2) (NATO reporting name for the R-2
    R-1 (missile)
    The R-1 rocket was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. Even though it was a copy, it was manufactured using Soviet industrial plants and gave the Soviets valuable experience which later enabled the USSR to construct its own much more capable rockets.In 1945 the...

    )
  • Sickle
    Sickle
    A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock . Sickles have also been used as weapons, either in their original form or in various derivations.The diversity of sickles that...

     (SS-25) (NATO reporting name for the RT-2PM Topol)
  • Silkworm missile
    Silkworm missile
    The Shang Yo or SY-series , and the Hai Ying or HY-series were early Chinese anti-ship missiles. They were derived from the Soviet P-15 Termit missile.The HY-1 and HY-2 received the NATO reporting name Silkworm...

     subsonic cruise missile
  • Sinner
    RT-21 Temp 2S
    The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

     (SS-16) (NATO reporting name for the RT-21 Temp 2S
    RT-21 Temp 2S
    The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

    )
  • Skean (SS-5) (NATO reporting name for the R-14 Usovaya
    R-14 Usovaya
    The R-14 Chusovaya was a theatre ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was given the NATO reporting name SS-5 Skean and was known by GRAU index 8K65. It was designed by Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel. Chusovaya is the name of a river in Russia...

    )
  • Sky Bow I (TK-1) (SAM)
  • Sky Bow II (TK-2) (SAM)
  • Sky Bow III (TK-3) (SAM)
  • Sky Spear
    Sky Spear
    The Sky Spear short-range ballistic missile is a Taiwanese short-range ballistic missile capable of striking targets on mainland China. Derived from the Sky Bow II surface-to-air missile), the Tien Chi has a two-stage booster that extends over the single-stage Tien Kung-2...

     (Short range SSBM)
  • Sky Sword I (TC-1)
    Sky Sword I
    The TC-1 Sky Sword I is a short range infrared guided air-to-air missile developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan ROC, for the ROC Air Force. The missile was developed in the mid to late 1980s and is presently deployed on the ROCAF's F-CK IDF fighters...

     (air-to-air)
  • Sky Sword II (TC-2)
    Sky Sword II
    The TC-2 Sky Sword II is a radar guided air-to-air missile developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan Republic of China during the 1990s for the ROC Air Force...

     (air-to-air)
  • Skybolt ALBM
  • SM-62 Snark
    SM-62 Snark
    -External links:** Air Force Magazine article about a Snark that was test-fired and rumored to have been found in Brazil** detailed article on Snark and the USAF school to train personnel for it...

  • SM-73 Goose (decoy cruise missile)
  • SM-74 (proposed decoy cruise missile)
  • Sotka (popular name for the MR-UR-100 Sotka)
  • Spanker (SS-17) (NATO reporting name for the MR-UR-100 Sotka)
  • Spartan
    LIM-49A Spartan
    The LIM-49A Spartan was a United States Army anti-ballistic missile, whose warheads were developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It was a three-stage, solid-fuel surface-to-air missile that carried a W71 thermonuclear warhead with a lethal radius of up to 30 miles to intercept...

     LIM-49A ABM
  • Spider
    Spider
    Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

     (SS-23) (NATO reporting name for the R-400 Oka
    R-400 Oka
    The OTR-23 Oka was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War to replace the obsolete SS-1C 'Scud B'. It carried the GRAU index 9K714 and was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-23 Spider...

    )
  • Spike/Gil missile
    Spike (missile)
    Spike is a fourth generation man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile with tandem-charged HEAT warhead, developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and in service with a number of nations....

     (Anti-tank)
  • Sprint
    Sprint (missile)
    The Sprint was a two-stage, solid-fuel anti-ballistic missile, armed with a W66 enhanced radiation thermonuclear warhead. It was designed as the short-range high-speed counterpart to the longer-range LIM-49 Spartan as part of the Sentinel program. Sentinel never became operational, but the...

     ABM
  • SS-1 Scunner (NATO reporting name for the R-1
    R-1 (missile)
    The R-1 rocket was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. Even though it was a copy, it was manufactured using Soviet industrial plants and gave the Soviets valuable experience which later enabled the USSR to construct its own much more capable rockets.In 1945 the...

    )
  • SS-1b Scud (NATO reporting name for the R-11
    Scud
    Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

    )
  • SS-1c Scud (NATO reporting name for the R-300 Elbrus)
  • SS-2 Sibling (NATO reporting name for the R-2
    R-1 (missile)
    The R-1 rocket was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. Even though it was a copy, it was manufactured using Soviet industrial plants and gave the Soviets valuable experience which later enabled the USSR to construct its own much more capable rockets.In 1945 the...

    )
  • SS-3 Shyster (NATO reporting name for the R-5)
  • SS-4 Sandal (NATO reporting name for the R-12 Dvina)
  • SS-5 Skean (NATO reporting name for the R-14 Skean)
  • SS-6 Sapwood (NATO reporting name for the R-7 Semyorka
    R-7 Semyorka
    The R-7 was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1961, but was never deployed operationally. A derivative, the R-7A, was deployed from 1960 to 1968...

    )
  • SS-7 Saddler (NATO reporting name for the R-16 rocket)
  • SS-8 Sasin (NATO reporting name for the R-9 Desna
    R-9 Desna
    The R-9 was a two stage ICBM of the Soviet Union.Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs...

    , also mistakenly applied to the R-26)
  • SS-9 Scarp (NATO reporting name for the R-36)
  • SS-10 surface-to-surface missile (France)
  • SS-11
    SS.11
    SS.11 is the designation of the Nord Aviation MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile. In American service the missile was designated the AGM-22. The missile entered service with the French Army in 1956. Production of the SS.11 ceased some time in the 1980s but in 1978 168,450 missiles had been produced...

     surface-to-surface missile (France)
  • SS-11 Sego (NATO reporting name for the UR-100
    UR-100
    The UR-100 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1996. УР in its designation stands for "универсальная ракета"...

    )
  • SS-12 surface-to-surface missile (France)
  • SS-12 Scaleboard (NATO reporting name for the TR-1 Temp
    TR-1 Temp
    The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76...

    )
  • SS-13 Savage (NATO reporting name for the RT-2
    RT-2
    The RT-2 was an intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union from 1969 through 1996. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-13 Savage and carried the industry designation 8K98. It was probably designed by the V.N...

    )
  • SS-14 Scamp (NATO reporting name for the RT-15
    RT-15
    The RT-15 was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-14 Scamp and carried the industry designation 8K96....

    )
  • SS-15 Scrooge (NATO reporting name for the RT-20
    RT-20 (missile)
    The RT-20 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Control system for it was designed at NPO "Electropribor"...

    )
  • SS-16 Sinner (NATO reporting name for the RT-21 Temp 2S
    RT-21 Temp 2S
    The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

    )
  • SS-17 Spanker (NATO reporting name for the MR-UR-100)
  • SS-18 Satan (NATO reporting name for the R-36M)
  • SS-19 Stiletto (NATO reporting name for the UR-100N)
  • SS-20 Saber (NATO reporting name for the RT-21M)
  • SS-21 Scarab (NATO reporting name for the OTR-21)
  • SS-22 Scaleboard (NATO reporting name for the TR-1 Temp
    TR-1 Temp
    The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76...

     modified versions)
  • SS-23 Spider (NATO reporting name for the R-400 Oka
    R-400 Oka
    The OTR-23 Oka was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War to replace the obsolete SS-1C 'Scud B'. It carried the GRAU index 9K714 and was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-23 Spider...

    )
  • SS-24 Scalpel (NATO reporting name for the RT-23 Molodets
    RT-23 Molodets
    The RT-23 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...

    )
  • SS-25 Sickle (NATO reporting name for the RT-2PM Topol)
  • SS-27 (NATO reporting name for the RT-2UTTH Topol M
    RT-2UTTH Topol M
    The RT-2UTTKh «Topol-M» is one of the most recent intercontinental ballistic missiles to be deployed by Russia , and the first to be developed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....

    )
  • SS-1000 (Brazil, retired)
  • SS-N-2 Styx
  • SS-N-4 Sark (NATO reporting name for the R-13)
  • SS-N-5 Serb (NATO reporting name for the R-21)
  • SS-N-6 Serb (NATO reporting name for the R-27
    R-27 (missile)
    The R-27 Zyb was a submarine-launched ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union and employed by the Soviet Navy from 1968 through 1988. NATO assigned the missile the reporting name SS-N-6 Serb. In the USSR, it was given the GRAU index 4K10...

    )
  • SS-N-12 Sandbox
    SS-N-12
    The P-500 Bazalt is a liquid-fueled, rocket-powered, supersonic cruise missile used by the Soviet and Russian navies. Developed by OKB-52 MAP , its GRAU designation is 4K80. Its NATO reporting name is SS-N-12 Sandbox. It entered service in 1973 to replace the SS-N-3 Shaddock...

  • SS-N-15
    SS-N-15
    The RPK-2 Viyuga cruise missile is a complex Russian submarine launched missile. Its NATO reporting name is Starfish ....

     Starfish
  • SS-N-16
    SS-N-16
    SS-N-16 Stallion refers to a Soviet 650 mm anti-ship missile that was deployed between 1979 and 1981. The name is a combination of the American designation of SS-N-16 and the NATO term of Stallion for Soviet RU-100s.It refers to either...

     Stallion
  • SS-N-17
    SS-N-17
    RSM-45 R-31 was a Soviet SLBM missile.Development for the missile began in the early 1970s. It was fitted on only one Yankee II class submarine, originally for evaluation purposes. A first test flight took place from the Yankee II Class submarine K-140 in December 1976...

  • SS-N-19 Shipwreck
  • SS-N-20
  • SS-N-22 Sunburn
  • SS-N-27 Sizzler (NATO reporting name for the 3M54E)
  • SS-X-10 Scrag (NATO reporting name for the Global Rocket 1
    Global Rocket 1
    The Global Rocket 1 was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System intercontinental ballistic missile developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War...

     and UR-200
    UR-200
    The UR-200 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by OKB-52 of Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey in the Soviet Union. It was known during the Cold War by the NATO reporting name SS-10 Scrag and internally by the GRAU index 8K81...

    )
  • Starstreak
  • Stiletto
    Stiletto
    A stiletto is a knife or dagger with a long slender blade and needle-like point, intended primarily as a stabbing weapon. The stiletto blade's narrow cross-section and acuminated tip reduces friction upon entry, allowing the blade to penetrate deeply...

     (SS-19) (NATO reporting name for the UR-100N)
  • Storm Shadow
    Storm Shadow
    Storm Shadow is a British, French and Italian air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by MBDA. Storm Shadow is the British name for the weapon; in French service it is called SCALP EG...

  • Strela-1 missile
    SA-9 Gaskin
    The warhead was primarily intended to impact the target directly, and had contact and magnetic fuzes, but also contained a back-up optical proximity fuze to detonate the warhead in case of a near miss...

     (SA-9 Gaskin)
  • Strela-2 missile (SA-7/SA-N-5 Grail)
  • Super 530
    Super 530
    The Matra Super 530 is a French short to medium-range air-to-air missile. The Super 530 series is an improved type of the Matra R530 missile.*Super 530F is carried on the Dassault Mirage F1. It was introduced in 1979....

     Air-Air
  • Swingfire
    Swingfire
    Swingfire was a British wire-guided anti-tank missile developed in the 1960s and produced from 1966 until 1993.-Development:Swingfire was developed by Fairey Engineering Ltd and the British Aircraft Corporation. It replaced the Vickers Vigilant missile in British service...

      Ground to ground, anti-tank

T

  • Taurus missile
    Taurus missile
    TAURUS KEPD 350 is a German/Swedish air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by TAURUS Systems and used by Germany and Spain. TAURUS Systems GmbH is a partnership between LFK and Saab Bofors Dynamics.-Overview:...

  • Terne ASW
    Terne ASW
    Terne is a Norwegian Anti-submarine weapon system, which uses rocket-thrown depth charges. It was developed by the in cooperation with the U.S. Navy in the late 1940s-early 1960s...

  • Temp
    TR-1 Temp
    The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76...

     (popular name for the TR-1 Temp
    TR-1 Temp
    The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76...

    )
  • Temp 2S (popular name for the RT-21 Temp 2S
    RT-21 Temp 2S
    The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

    )
  • Thunderbird
    English Electric Thunderbird
    The English Electric Thunderbird was a British surface to air missile produced for the British Army. The Thunderbird was primarily intended to attack higher altitude targets at ranges of up to thirty miles or so. AA guns were still used for lower altitude threats...

  • Tippu missile (Pakistani IRBM)
  • Topol (popular name for the RT-2PM Topol and RT-2UTTH Topol M
    RT-2UTTH Topol M
    The RT-2UTTKh «Topol-M» is one of the most recent intercontinental ballistic missiles to be deployed by Russia , and the first to be developed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....

    )
  • TOROS missile
    TOROS missile
    TOROS is a Turkish artillery rocket system, that has been developed in both 230 and 260 millimeter calibres. The system was developed by , and is used by the Turkish Army...

  • TR-1 Temp
    TR-1 Temp
    The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76...

     theatre ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War) (SS-12 / SS-22 Scaleboard)
  • Trigat
    Trigat
    The PARS 3 LR in German service, also known as TRIGAT-LR and AC 3G in French, is a currently in development fire-and-forget missile which can be used against air or ground targets...

  • Trishul missile (Indian Surface-to-Air Missile)

U

  • UGM-27 Polaris
  • UGM-73 Poseidon
  • UGM-89 Perseus
    UGM-89 Perseus
    The UGM-89 Perseus was a proposed U.S. Navy submarine-launched anti-ship and anti-submarine cruise missile that was developed under the Submarine Tactical Missile project, which was also referred to as the Submarine Anti-ship Weapon System...

  • UGM-96 Trident I
    UGM-96 Trident I
    The UGM-96 Trident I, or Trident C4 was an American Submarine-launched ballistic missile, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California. First deployed in 1979, the Trident I replaced the Poseidon missile. It was retired in the Early 21st Century, having been replaced by the...

  • UGM-133 Trident II
    UGM-133 Trident II
    UGM-133 Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed with the US Navy and Royal Navy. It was first deployed in 1990, and is still in service....

  • Umkhonto
    Umkhonto missile
    Umkhonto is a South African, vertical launch surface-to-air missile manufactured by Denel Dynamics available in infrared homing and radar homing version .-Umkhonto-IR Mk1:...

  • UMTAS
    UMTAS
    UMTAS is a long range air-to-surface anti-tank missile developed by Turkish armor and missile manufacturer Roketsan.-Background:...

  • UR-100
    UR-100
    The UR-100 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1996. УР in its designation stands for "универсальная ракета"...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-11 Sego)
  • UR-100MR (common alternate designation for the MR-UR-100 Sotka)
  • UR-100N intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-19 Stiletto)
  • UR-200
    UR-200
    The UR-200 was an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by OKB-52 of Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey in the Soviet Union. It was known during the Cold War by the NATO reporting name SS-10 Scrag and internally by the GRAU index 8K81...

     intercontinental ballistic missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-X-10 Scrag)
  • Usovaya (popular name for the R-14 Usovaya
    R-14 Usovaya
    The R-14 Chusovaya was a theatre ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was given the NATO reporting name SS-5 Skean and was known by GRAU index 8K65. It was designed by Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel. Chusovaya is the name of a river in Russia...

    )
  • UUM-44
    UUM-44 SUBROC
    The UUM-44 SUBROC was a type of submarine-launched rocket deployed by the United States Navy as an anti-submarine weapon.-Development:...

     Subroc
  • UUM-125 Sea Lance

V

  • V-1
  • V-2
    V-2 rocket
    The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...

  • Voivode (popular name for the R-36M2)

Missiles 50 - 200 Kg

Weight Rocket Name Country of origin Period of manufacture and use Warhead weight Warhead types Range Speed CEP
86 kg Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinder
AIM-9 Sidewinder
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. The missile entered service with United States Air Force in the early 1950s, and variants and upgrades remain in active service with many air forces...

1956- 9.4 kg Annular blast fragmentation 18 km Mach 2.5
87.4 kg Diehl IRIS-T
IRIS-T
The IRIS-T is a German-led program to develop a short-range air-to-air missile to replace the venerable AIM-9 Sidewinder found in some of the NATO member countries...

2005- 11.4 kg HE/fragmentation 25 km Mach 3
88 kg MBDA AIM-132 ASRAAM
AIM-132 ASRAAM
The AIM-132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile is an infrared homing air-to-air missile, produced by MBDA. It is currently in service in the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force , replacing the AIM-9 Sidewinder...

2002- 10 kg Blast/fragmentation 18 km Mach 3+
89 kg Matra R550 Magic/Magic 2 1976-1986 (Magic)
1986- (Magic 2)
12.5 kg Blast/fragmentation 15 km Mach 2.7
96 kg IAI Nimrod 2
Nimrod (missile)
Nimrod is a long-range air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missile developed by Israel Aerospace Industries. While primarily designed for anti-tank use, it provides standoff strike capability against a variety of point targets such as APCs, ships, bunkers, personnel concentrations and...

1989-[] 14 kg HEAT
Heat
In physics and thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one body, region, or thermodynamic system to another due to thermal contact or thermal radiation when the systems are at different temperatures. It is often described as one of the fundamental processes of energy transfer between...

, thermobaric, Fragmentation-HE
36 km 2000 km/h
105 kg Vympel R-73 1982- 7.4 kg Fragmentation 20–40 km Mach 2.5
112 kg MBDA MICA-EM/-IR 1996- (EM)
2000- (IR)
12 kg Blast/fragmentation
(focused splinters HE)
> 60 km Mach 4
118 kg Rafael Derby 1990- 23 kg Blast/fragmentation 50 km Mach 4
152 kg Raytheon AIM-120D AMRAAM
AIM-120 AMRAAM
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...

2008 18 kg Blast/fragmentation 210 km Mach 4
152 kg Raytheon AIM-120C AMRAAM
AIM-120 AMRAAM
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...

1996 18 kg Blast/fragmentation 105 km Mach 4
152 kg Raytheon AIM-120B AMRAAM
AIM-120 AMRAAM
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...

1994- 23 kg Blast/fragmentation 48 km Mach 4
175 kg Vympel R-77 1994- 22 kg Blast/fragmentation 75 km 4250 km/h
185 kg MBDA Meteor
MBDA Meteor
Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile being developed by MBDA. It is to equip the Eurofighter Typhoons of the UK's Royal Air Force , Germany's Luftwaffe, Spain's Ejército del Aire and Italy's Aeronautica Militare Italiana, the British and Italian F-35s , the...

2012- ? Blast/fragmentation 100+ km Mach 4+

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