List of active missiles of the United States military
The following is a list of active missiles of the United States military.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) |
Air-to-air missiles
Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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Air-to-Air Stinger | Infrared homing | Mach 2.2 | ![]() |
AIM-7 Sparrow | Semi-active radar homing | Mach 4 | ![]() |
AIM-9 Sidewinder | Infrared homing | Unverified (≈Mach 2.7) | ![]() |
AIM-120 AMRAAM | Active radar homing | Mach 4 | ![]() |
Air-to-surface missiles
Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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AGM-65 Maverick | Infrared homing (AGM-65D/G/F) Semi-active laser homing (AGM-65E) Charge-coupled device (AGM-65H/K) | Mach 0.93 | ![]() |
AGM-88 HARM | Radiation homing | Mach 1.9 | ![]() |
AGM-158 JASSM | Global Positioning System | Subsonic | ![]() |
AGM-84 Harpoon | Active radar homing | Mach 0.72 | ![]() |
AGM-114 Hellfire | Semi-active laser homing (AGM-114K/M/N/P/R) Active radar homing (AGM-114L) | Mach 1.3 | ![]() |
AGM-86 ALCM | Global Positioning System | Subsonic | |
AGM-158C LRASM | Global Positioning System | High Subsonic | ![]() |
Surface-to-air
Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image | |
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RIM-7 Sea Sparrow | Semi-active radar homing | Mach 4 | ![]() | |
RIM-66 Standard | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing | Mach 3.5 | ![]() | |
FIM-92 Stinger | Infrared homing | Mach 2.54 | ![]() | |
MIM-104 Patriot | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing | Mach 5 | ![]() | |
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile | Infrared homing | Mach 2.5 | ![]() | |
RIM-156A Standard | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing | Unverified (classified) | ![]() | |
RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 | GPS/INS/semi-active radar homing/passive LWIR infrared homing seeker (KW) | Unverified (≈Mach 9+) | ![]() | |
RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing | Mach 4 | ![]() | |
RIM-174 Standard ERAM | Command midcourse and Terminal Active radar homing | Unverified (≈Mach 3.5) | ![]() | |
NASAMS (Used to protect high-value targets and Washington, D.C.) | Active radar homing | Mach 4 | ![]() |
Surface-to-surface missiles
Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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FGM-148 Javelin | Infrared homing | Mach 0.32 | ![]() |
BGM-71 TOW | Wire-guided | Mach 0.8 | ![]() |
BGM-109 Tomahawk | Global Positioning System aided TERCOM | Mach 0.7 | ![]() |
RGM-84 Harpoon | Active radar homing | Mach 0.7 | ![]() |
MGM-140 ATACMS | GPS-aided inertial navigation guidance | Mach 3 | |
LRHW | - | Mach 17 | ![]() |
Antisubmarine warfare
Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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RUM-139 VL-ASROC | Inertial navigation system | Subsonic | ![]() |
ICBM
Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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LGM-30 Minuteman | Inertial navigation system GPS | ≈Mach 23 | ![]() |
Submarine-launched
Missile | Guidance | Speed | |
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UGM-133 Trident II | GPS | Mach 24 | ![]() |
UGM-109 Tomahawk | Global Positioning System | Mach 0.7 | ![]() |
UGM-84 Harpoon | Active radar homing | Mach 0.7 | ![]() |
See also
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Types of missile
- Air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM)
- Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM)
- Air-to-air missile (AAM)
- Air-to-surface missile (ASM)
- Ballistic missile
- Cruise missile
- Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
- Intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)
- Short-range ballistic missile (SRBM)
- Shoulder-fired missile
- Standoff missile
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
- Submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM)
- Surface-to-air missile (SAM)
- Surface-to-surface missile (SSM)
- Anti-ballistic missile (ABM)
- Anti-radiation missile (ARM)
- Anti-satellite weapon (ASAT)
- Anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM)
- Anti-ship missile (AShM)
- Anti-submarine missile (ASuM)
- Anti-tank missile (ATGM)
- Land-attack missile (LAM)
- Man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS)
- Unguided
- Radar guidance
- Passive homing
- Track-via-missile (TVM)
- Anti-radiation
- Command guidance
- Command to line-of-sight (CLOS)
- Command off line of sight (COLOS)
- Manual command to line of sight (MCLOS)
- Semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS)
- Automatic command to line of sight (ACLOS)
- Pursuit guidance
- Beam riding (LOSBR)
- Infrared guidance
- Laser guidance
- Wire guidance
- Satellite guidance
- Inertial guidance
- Astro-inertial guidance
- Terrestrial guidance
- Automatic target recognition (ATR)
- Radio guidance
- TV guidance
- Contrast seeker
- Compass
- Predicted line of sight (PLOS)
See also: Sounding rocket