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List of missiles

Below is a list of (links to pages on) missiles, sorted alphabetically by country of origin. See also the list of rockets.

Types of missiles:


Table of contents

Asia except Middle East

People's Republic of China

India

North Korea

Pakistan

  • Anza

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Europe

Joint European

France

Ground-Ground

Ground-Air

Air-ground

Air-Air

Nuclear

Germany

See also: German missiles of WW2

Norway

  • Penguin (U.S. designation: AGM-119)

Sweden

  • RBS-15
  • RBS-23
  • RBS-70
  • RBS-77
  • RBS-90

United Kingdom

Middle East

Iran

Iraq

Israel

  • Arrow missile (Anti-ballistic)
  • Barak missile (Naval point defense)
  • Gabriel missile (Ship-to-ship and air-to-ship variants)
  • Jericho missile (Ground-to-ground ballistic)
  • Popeye missile (Standoff. U.S. designation AGM-142 Have Nap. A cruise missile variant purportedly exists as well)
  • Rafael Python 5 (Air-to-air)
  • Shavit (Space launcher)
  • Spike/Gil missile (Anti-tank)

Palestine

Russia or the USSR

The NATO reporting name of each missile is shown in parentheses behind the proper name. AA = Air-to-Air; SA = Surface-to-Air (i.e., SAMs); SS = Surface-to-Surface; SA-N = Surface-to-Air, Naval; SS-N = Surface-to-Surface, Naval (i.e., ship/submarine-launched missiles).

United States

Unified D.S.

D.S. = Designation System (the particular letter triplet + number code system used in front of the missile name). The Unified D.S. includes missiles from all three military services: Army, Navy, and Air Force.

First letter of triplet:

  • A = launch from air
  • B = TBD
  • C = stored in "coffin" (horizontal container), raised to a vertical position and then fueled for launch
  • F = shoulder-launched missile weapon
  • G – Runway or ground
  • H – stored in missile silo, but launched from the surface
  • L = launch from missile silo
  • M = ground launched, mobile
  • P = launch from soft pad (fixed, unprotected surface location)
  • R = launch from surface ship
  • U = launch from submarine

Second letter of triplet:

  • D = decoy drone
  • G = surface attack
  • I = interception (air or space)
  • Q = target drone
  • U = underwater attack

Last letter of triplet:

  • M = missile


The list of U.S. missiles, sorted by ascending U.D.S. number:

US Air Force D.S.

D.S. = Designation System (the particular letter triplet + number code system used in front of the missile name)

US Navy D.S.

  • no entries made

US Army D.S.

  • no entries made

Miscellanous

Others

Argentina

South Africa

TBD

  • CSS-2 missile

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