medium-range ballistic missile

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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The US National Security Council, meanwhile, said "an experimental medium-range ballistic missile" had been used against Ukraine, adding that Russia probably only possessed a handful of these weapons and that they would not be a game changer in the war.

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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.

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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.

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The North launched two medium-range ballistic missile from Tongchang-ri in December, according to South Korean officials.

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