Meta
- Drones and cruise missiles can’t seize or hold ground.
Trajectory and guidence
- Ballistic trajectory.
- cruise missiles, which are aerodynamically guided
- Guided vs unguided
- PGM - Precision Guided Missile
Source/ Target
- air-to-air missile
- beyond-visual-range missile (BVR)
- air-to-surface missiles (ASMs)
- anti-submarine warfare missiles (ASWMs)
- anti-satellite missiles (ASatMs or ASATMs)
- “anti-ship missile” is AShM or ASHM
- anti tank (ATM). If guided - ATGM
Range
- Multiple rocket launcher (MLRS)
Tactical missile
- Aka Very short range
- 150 to 300 kilometres (93 to 186 mi)
Theatre missile
- If ballastic Aka - (TBM)
- 300 to 3,500 kilometres
Short range
- 300 to 1,000 kilometres (190 to 620 mi)
- OTR-21 Tochka (2022 Russian invasion )
- 9K720 Iskander mobile short range hypersonic ballistic missile (2022 Russian invasion )
Medium range
- Ballistic
- Agni II (2,000–3,000 km)
- Cruise
- Brahmos 800 km. 1500 km-plus extended range being developed.
Intermediate-range
- 3,000–5,500 km (1,864–3,418 miles)
- If ballastic, Aka IRBM
- Agni-III, Agni 4
Intercontinental ICBM
- Range greater than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi)
- highest altitude (apogee) reached during free-flight is about 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi)