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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Russia’s road-mobile, MIRV-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile — a post-INF dual-use weapon employed sparingly for strategic messaging rather than battlefield effect.