The DF-5C is China's newest heavy, liquid-fuelled, silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile, presented as a globally ranged strategic weapon and assessed by the Pentagon to carry a multi-megaton warhead.
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.
Russia's principal solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, deployed on road-mobile launchers and in silos with multiple independently targetable nuclear warheads.
The LGM-30G Minuteman III is the United States' three-stage, solid-propellant, silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile and the sole land-based component of the US nuclear triad.
Russia's RS-28 Sarmat is a heavy, silo-launched intercontinental ballistic missile intended to replace the R-36M2 and carry MIRVs or Avangard glide vehicles, but its operational status remains unverified after repeated test failures and delays.
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.
The DF-27 is China's ICBM-range hypersonic glide missile — per the Pentagon a fielded conventional ICBM with the world's longest-range anti-ship variant, reaching Hawaii, Alaska and much of the Pacific. Never shown or acknowledged by Beijing; nearly all data traces to one leaked US document.
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.
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.
China's road-mobile, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile — capable of carrying multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles and reaching the continental United States from dispersed launch points inside China.