The Fateh-313 is a short-range solid-fuel missile, an upgraded version of the Fateh-110 series of missiles. The Fateh-313 features an extended range of 500 km and improved accuracy. 1 Iran likely used ...

The Shahab-3 is a medium-range, liquid-fueled, road-mobile ballistic missile. The Shahab-3 marked Iran’s first successful development and acquisition of a medium-range ballistic missile. The induction ...

The Hyunmoo-2A is a short-range, solid-fueled ballistic missile developed and deployed by South Korea. The Hyunmoo-2A, 2B, and 2C missiles are critical elements in South Korea’s ‘Kill Chain’ ...

The Hwasong-18 is a North Korean solid-fueled, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It has a three-stage booster and is cold-launched, with a stated range of over 15,000 km. It is North Korea’s ...

Israel deploys a layered air and missile defense architecture built to counter a wide variety of air and missile threats emanating from state and non-state regional adversaries. This threat spectrum ...

The Dongfeng-17 (DF-17) hypersonic weapon system on parade in Beijing, October 2019. Source: PLA China maintains the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the world. Since the end of the Cold ...

Jun-1992 No Dong 1 1 IHS Jane’s Weapons: Strategic, 2015-2016 Oct-1991 Hwasong 6 (SRBM) 1 IHS Jane’s Weapons: Strategic, 2015-2016 Aug-1991 No Dong 1 1 IHS Jane’s Weapons: Strategic, 2015-2016 ...

The Hwasong-19 is a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It is the largest operational road-mobile ICBM in the world. 1 The missile has three solid-fueled stages and is ...

On August 26, China test fired multiple ballistic missiles, which landed at a site near Hainan and the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. According to Chinese reports, Chinese forces launched one ...

From the Gulf War Scud hunts to today’s discussion of targeting missiles “left of launch,” the challenge of countering missile threats has been defined by a competition of hiding and finding. 1 Prior ...

In discussions on missile defense, the matter of countermeasures—decoy warheads and other deceptive missile payloads—is often invoked but insufficiently explored. For decades, popular commentators ...

This interactive feature is archived. It was published and last updated in January 2017. Among the concerns of the NATO alliance in the post-Crimea era is the increase in Russia’s anti-access area ...