medium-range ballistic missile
Britishnoun
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Iran last year unveiled a medium-range ballistic missile known as the Qassem Bassir that uses seeker technology, according to John Caves, senior research associate at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The IDF said this was an Iranian-made Qadr-1 - a medium-range ballistic missile that can carry a warhead of between 700kg and 1,000kg.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
The Soviet Union fielded its first solid-fuel ICBM, the RT-2, in the early 1970s, followed by France's development of its S3, also known as SSBS, a medium-range ballistic missile.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2023
Wednesday’s report only referred to the widely known fact that China had fielded the DF-17 medium-range ballistic missile, equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle designed to evade American missile defenses.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
The United States regularly tests its missile-defense systems, and this was the second time one of its Standard Missile-6 missiles successfully intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile, the agency said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2017
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