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medium-range ballistic missile

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noun

  1.  MRBM.  a missile that can carry a nuclear weapon with a range of 800 to 2400 km

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“How do we know this is a medium-range ballistic missile?”

From Literature

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

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

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

The North launched two medium-range ballistic missile from Tongchang-ri in December, according to South Korean officials.

From New York Times