ballistic missile

ballistic missile

English

Etymology

ballistic +‎ missile

Noun

ballistic missile (plural ballistic missiles)

1. (military, astronautics) A missile that is initially guided, but then follows a ballistic (freely falling) trajectory.

Synonyms

• BM

Hyponyms

• intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
• intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)
• long range ballistic missile (LRBM)
• medium range ballistic missile (MRBM)
• submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
• short range ballistic missile (SRBM)

Derived terms

• anti-ballistic missile (ABM)

Translations

missile

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: صَارُوخ بَالِسْتِيّ‎ m (ṣārūḵ bālistiyy) Armenian: բալիստիկ հրթիռ (hy) (balistik hrtʿiṙ) Belarusian: балісты́чная раке́та f (balistýčnaja rakjéta) Bulgarian: балисти́чна раке́та f (balistíčna rakéta) Chinese: Mandarin: 彈道導彈／弹道导弹 (zh) (dàndào dǎodàn), 彈道飛彈／弹道飞弹 (dàndào fēidàn) (Taiwan, HK) Czech: balistická raketa f Danish: ballistisk missil n Dutch: ballistische raket m or f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ballistinen ohjus (fi) French: missile balistique (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: ballistische Rakete f Hungarian: ballisztikus rakéta Irish: diúracán balaistíochta m, diúracán balaistíoch m Italian: missile balistico m Japanese: 弾道ミサイル (だんどう みさいる, dandō misairu) Latvian: ballistiskā raķete f Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: балистичка ракета f (balistička raketa) Mongolian: Cyrillic: баллистик пуужин (ballistik puužin), харвалзүйн залуурт сум (xarvalzüjn zaluurt sum) (China) Norwegian: Bokmål: ballistisk missil n Polish: pocisk balistyczny m, rakieta balistyczna f Portuguese: míssil balístico m Romanian: rachetă balistică f Russian: баллисти́ческая раке́та (ru) f (ballistíčeskaja rakéta) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: балистичка ракета f Roman: balistička raketa f Slovak: balistická raketa f Slovene: balistični izstrelek m Spanish: misil balístico m Swedish: ballistisk robot Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: балісти́чна раке́та (uk) f (balistýčna rakéta) Vietnamese: tên lửa đạn đạo

See also

• guided missile
• cruise missile