medium-range ballistic missile
Britishnoun
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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
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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