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medium-range ballistic missile

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noun

  1.  MRBM.  a missile that can carry a nuclear weapon with a range of 800 to 2400 km

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In a successful December test of the developing system, U.S. forces shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

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

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 test, using Standard Missile-6 guided missiles, intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target.

From Reuters Aug. 30, 2017

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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