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EuropePro

M51.3

M51.3 is the third version of France's submarine-launched strategic ballistic missile, combining the TNO-2 nuclear warhead with improvements in range, accuracy and penetration.

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UkrainePro

FP-9

FP-9 is Fire Point's developmental Ukrainian ground-launched ballistic missile, with a claimed range of up to 850 km and payload of up to 800 kg. No flight or combat use is publicly documented as of 10 October 2026.

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IranPro

Palestine-2

The Palestine-2 is an Iranian-derived, two-stage solid-propellant ballistic missile fielded by Yemen's Houthi movement for long-range strikes against Israel.

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ChinaPro

DF-16

China's DF-16 is a road-mobile, two-stage ballistic missile designed for conventional precision strikes against Taiwan and other targets across the western Pacific's first island chain.

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UkrainePro

FP-7

The FP-7 is a Ukrainian ground-launched tactical ballistic missile under military evaluation, designed to carry up to 150 kg over a stated 200 km range.

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IranPro

Toufan

Toufan is the Houthi designation for an Iranian Ghadr-derived, liquid-propellant medium-range ballistic missile with sufficient claimed range to reach Israel from Yemen.

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missilesPro

Hwasong-19

North Korea's largest flight-tested road-mobile ICBM — a three-stage, solid-propellant missile intended to supplement the Hwasong-18 and potentially carry multiple reentry vehicles.

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IranPro

Zolfaghar

Iran's road-mobile, solid-fuel Zolfaghar ballistic missile extends the Fateh-110 family to a claimed 700 km and has been used in cross-border strikes since 2017.

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RussiaPro

RSM-56 Bulava

Russia's solid-propellant submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile, carried exclusively by Borei-class ballistic-missile submarines and central to the modernization of the country's sea-based nuclear deterrent.

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USAPro

Trident II D5

The UGM-133A Trident II D5 is the submarine-launched ballistic missile at the core of the United States and United Kingdom sea-based nuclear deterrents.

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RussiaPro

OTR-21 Tochka-U

The OTR-21 Tochka-U is a Soviet road-mobile short-range ballistic missile with a 120 km range, inertial guidance and conventional, cluster or nuclear warhead options.

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RussiaPro

KN-30

North Korea's heavyweight Hwasong-11 — a solid-fuel ballistic missile more than ten metres long, claimed to carry a 2.5-tonne warhead roughly five times an Iskander's, transferred to Russia in 2026 and deployed within range of Ukraine.

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IranPro

Fateh-110

The Fateh-110 is an Iranian road-mobile, solid-propellant short-range ballistic missile developed for conventional theater strikes at ranges of approximately 200 to 300 km.

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missilesPro

Bora

The Roketsan Bora is Turkey's combat-proven tactical ballistic missile — fired against PKK targets in 2019, the first Turkish BM used in anger, and exported to Indonesia as the Khan: the first Turkish ballistic-missile export, deliberately sized under the MTCR threshold.

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IranPro

Emad

The Emad is Iran's first precision-guided ballistic missile — a Ghadr airframe with a maneuvering reentry vehicle, ~1,700 km range. It has flown in every True Promise salvo against Israel since April 2024, and the 2026 war gutted the launcher force and factories that field it.

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USAPro

LGM-35A Sentinel

The LGM-35A Sentinel is the US ICBM replacing the 1970-vintage Minuteman III — and America's most troubled strategic program: an 81% cost breach to at least $141B, silo reuse abandoned for all-new silos, first flight slipped to 2028 and IOC to the early 2030s.

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ChinaPro

JL-3

The JL-3 is China's third-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile — a ~10,000 km-class, likely MIRV-capable weapon now fielded on Jin-class submarines, which the Pentagon says ranges most of the continental US. First shown publicly at the September 2025 parade.

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missilesPro

Hwasong-18

The Hwasong-18 is North Korea's first solid-fuel ICBM — cold-launched, road-mobile, three-for-three in 2023 tests, with an implied 15,000 km reach covering the entire US. It compresses pre-launch warning to minutes and sparked an unresolved fight over Russian design help.

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missilesPro

Tayfun

The Roketsan Tayfun is Turkey's longest-range ballistic missile — revealed by a 561 km test in 2022, in mass production since 2023, with the enlarged Block-4 marketed as Turkey's "first hypersonic missile." Range claims span 280 to 1,500 km; only the demonstration is certain.

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missilesPro

Hyunmoo

South Korea's strike arsenal — the Hyunmoo family runs from Tomahawk-like cruise missiles to the Hyunmoo-5 "monster missile," a conventional ballistic weapon with an 8-tonne bunker-buster warhead built to smash North Korea's deepest command bunkers. The non-nuclear backbone of Seoul's deterrence.

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missilesPro

Agni-V

India's long-range deterrent — the Agni-V is a road-mobile, nuclear-capable ballistic missile that puts all of China within reach. In 2024 India test-fired a version carrying multiple independently-targeted warheads (MIRV), joining a small club of powers with that technology.

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IranPro

Kheibar Shekan

Iran's solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile — quick to launch, road-mobile, and tipped with a maneuvering warhead that jinks in its final seconds to dodge interceptors. It flew in Iran's 2024 barrages on Israel, and its booster later seeded the Fattah-1.

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IranPro

Fattah-2

Iran's hypersonic-glide evolution of the Fattah-1 — a missile pairing a solid-fuel booster with a maneuvering liquid-fuel glide vehicle, claimed to reach Mach 15 over ~1,500 km. Topical after the Israel–Iran exchanges, but its real performance is heavily disputed.

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IsraelPro

LORA

Israel's long-range precision strike missile — a theater quasi-ballistic system launched from mobile ground launchers, ships, or fighters, delivering a 570 kg warhead with 10-meter accuracy up to 430 km.

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USAPro

PrSM

America's next-generation tactical ballistic missile — a HIMARS/MLRS-fired deep-strike weapon that doubles ATACMS reach, adds anti-ship capability, and made its combat debut against Iran in 2026.

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IranPro

Sejjil

Iran's first solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile — a two-stage, road-mobile MRBM fielded by the IRGC, with a ~2,000 km range and a short-notice launch capability that marks a step beyond liquid-propellant Shahab derivatives.

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UkrainePro

Sapsan

Ukraine’s first indigenously developed short-range ballistic missile — free of Western range and target restrictions, and now serial-produced to strike airbases, command posts and logistics hubs deep inside Russian-controlled territory.

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IranPro

Khorramshahr

Iran's heaviest liquid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile family, derived from the North Korean Musudan, carrying large conventional warheads or submunitions out to ~2,000 km and assessed capable of 3,000 km with a lighter payload — a centrepiece of IRGC strategic strike and the subject of.

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ChinaPro

DF-21D

China's pioneering land-based anti-ship ballistic missile — the "carrier killer" that forced the U.S. Navy to rethink its force structure, holding aircraft carriers at risk out to 1,500 km.

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IranPro

Fattah-1

Iran's most advanced operational ballistic missile — a solid-propellant MRBM with a powered maneuvering re-entry vehicle, marketed by Tehran as "hypersonic" and combat-tested against Israeli defenses in 2024 and 2025.

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RussiaPro

KN-23 Hwasong-11Ga

North Korea's solid-fuel quasi-ballistic short-range missile — an Iskander lookalike manufactured at the February 11 Plant, transferred to Russia, and combat-proven in Ukraine with evolving accuracy.

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RussiaPro

Iskander-M

Russia's primary road-mobile short-range ballistic missile — nuclear-capable, maneuvering, and the workhorse of its deep-strike campaign in Ukraine.

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ChinaPro

PHL-191

China's modular, long-range wheeled multiple-launch rocket system — built to strike targets up to 500 km across the Taiwan Strait with a mix of guided rockets and Fire Dragon tactical ballistic missiles, and the keystone of the PLAGF's deep-fires modernization.

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ChinaPro

DF-26

China's road-mobile, dual-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile — able to strike land targets out to Guam and, in its DF-26B variant, engage moving ships at sea.

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USAPro

ATACMS

The MGM-140 ATACMS — a HIMARS/MLRS-launched short-range ballistic missile, fielded since Desert Storm and the backbone of US deep-strike fires — now a critical enabler in Ukraine’s long-range campaign.