+Missile

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)