A medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) is a type of

ballistic missile A ballistic missile is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target. These weapons are powered only during relatively brief periods—most of the flight is unpowered. Short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) typic ...

with medium

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, this last classification depending on the standards of certain organizations. Within the U.S. Department of Defense, a medium-range missile is defined by having a maximum range of between . In modern terminology, MRBMs are part of the wider grouping of

theatre ballistic missile A theatre ballistic missile (TBM) is any ballistic missile used against targets "Theater (warfare), in-theatre". Examples of this type of in-theatre missile are the Soviet Union, Soviet RT-15, TR-1 Temp and United States, American PGM-19 Jupiter ...

s, which includes any ballistic missile with a range of less than . Roughly speaking, MRBM covers the ranges over SRBM (tactical) and under IRBM.

Specific MRBMs

* DF-2 – * DF-16 – * DF-17 – * DF-21 – * SSBS S1 * S2 (missile) * Agni-II – * Agni-P – * Long Range – Anti Ship Missile > (Tested on 16 November 2024) * Ashoura – * Emad – * Fajr-3 – (estimation) * Fattah – * Ghadr-110 – *

Kheibar Shekan Kheibar Shekan or Kheibarshekan () is an Iranian solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force. It is of the third generation of IRGC missiles and was unveiled in 2022 at a ceremony ...

– 1400 kilometers (900 miles) * Khorramshahr – * Sejjil – *

Shahab-3 The Shahab-3 (; meaning "Meteor-3") is a family of liquid propellant rocket, liquid-fueled ballistic missiles developed by Iran, under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, and based upon the North Korean Nodong-1, Nodong-1/A and Nodong-2, ...

– * Qassem Bassir – 1200–3000 kilometres (745–1860 mi) *

Badr-2000 The Badr-2000 was an Iraqi high technology two-stage solid-propelled Medium-range ballistic missile that was based on the Argentinian Condor-II ballistic missile. The Iraqis invested a lot of money in the production of the missile, however Ir ...

– * Jericho II – * HVGP (Block 2) – (de-facto, under development)p. 240 * Hwasong-7 – * Hwasong-9 – * Hwasong-10 – *

Pukguksong-1 The Pukguksong-1 (), also known as KN-11 in intelligence communities outside North Korea, is a North Korean two-stage solid-fueled submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that had a complete, successful test on 24 August 2016. North Korea h ...

– * Pukguksong-2 – * Pukguksong-3 – * Ababeel – * Ghauri-I – * Ghauri-II – * Ghauri-III – (Cancelled) * Shaheen-II – * Shaheen-III – Missile Thread
* Cenk – * R-5 Pobeda – *

R-12 Dvina The R-12 Dvina was a theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Its GRAU designation was 8K63 (8K63U or 8K63У in Cyrillic for silo-launched version), and it was given the NATO reporting name of SS- ...

– * RT-15 – *

Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), also known as Dark Eagle is a intermediate-range ballistic missile, intermediate-range surface-to-surface missile, surface-to-surface boost-glide hypersonic weapon being developed for use by the United St ...

– over * OpFires – around * Pershing II – *

PGM-19 Jupiter The PGM-19 Jupiter was the first nuclear weapon, nuclear armed, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was a liquid-propellant rocket using RP-1 fuel and Liquid oxygen, LOX oxidizer, with a single Rocketd ...

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Specific MRBMs

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