An intermediate-range ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a range between 3,000 and 5,500 kilometres, categorized between a medium-range ballistic missile and an intercontinental ballistic m
Agni-IV missile being launched from Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha, India
An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a range greater than 5,500 kilometres, primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery. Conventional, chemical, and biological weapons
Intermediate-range ballistic missile
…ballistic missile with a range between 3,000 and 5,500 kilometres (1,900–3,400 mi), categorized between a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Classifying ballistic missiles by range is done mostly for convenience. In principle there is little difference between a high-performance IRBM…
An SM-65 Atlas, the first US ICBM, first launched in 1957
MZKT-79221 transporter erector launcher carrying missile container during rehearsals for the 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade.
A US Peacekeeper missile launched from a silo
Testing of the Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll. All eight fired from only one missile. Each line, if its warhead were live, represents the potential explosive power of about 300 kilotons of TNT, about 20 times that of the detonation of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.