List of active missiles of the United States military
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The following is a list of active missiles of the United States military.
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Air-to-air missiles
[edit]| Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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| Air-to-Air Stinger | Infrared homing | Mach 2.2 | 
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| AIM-7 Sparrow | Semi-active radar homing | Mach 4 | 
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| AIM-9 Sidewinder | Infrared homing | Unverified (≈Mach 2.7) | 
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| AIM-120 AMRAAM | Active radar homing | Mach 4 | 
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Air-to-surface missiles
[edit]| 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 | 
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| AGM-88 HARM | Radiation homing | Mach 1.9 | 
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| AGM-158 JASSM | Global Positioning System | Subsonic | 
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| AGM-84 Harpoon | Active radar homing | Mach 0.72 | 
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| AGM-114 Hellfire | Semi-active laser homing (AGM-114K/M/N/P/R) Active radar homing (AGM-114L) |
Mach 1.3 | 
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| AGM-86 ALCM | Global Positioning System | Subsonic | 
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| AGM-158C LRASM | Global Positioning System | High Subsonic | 
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Surface-to-air
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| RIM-7 Sea Sparrow | Semi-active radar homing | Mach 4 | 
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| RIM-66 Standard | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing |
Mach 3.5 | _during_tests_off_Puerto_Rico_March_1983.jpg)
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| FIM-92 Stinger | Infrared homing | Mach 2.54 | 
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| MIM-104 Patriot | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing |
Mach 5 | 
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| RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile | Infrared homing | Mach 2.5 | 
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| RIM-156A Standard | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing |
Unverified (classified) | 
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| RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 | GPS/INS/semi-active radar homing/passive LWIR infrared homing seeker (KW) | Unverified (≈Mach 9+) | _SM-3_start.jpg)
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| RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow | Command midcourse and Terminal Semi-active radar homing |
Mach 4 | 
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| RIM-174 Standard ERAM | Command midcourse and Terminal Active radar homing |
Unverified (≈Mach 3.5) | 
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| NASAMS (Used to protect high-value targets and Washington, D.C.) | Active radar homing | Mach 4 | 
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Surface-to-surface missiles
[edit]| Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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| FGM-148 Javelin | Infrared homing | Mach 0.32 | 
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| BGM-71 TOW | Wire-guided | Mach 0.8 | 
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| BGM-109 Tomahawk | Global Positioning System aided TERCOM | Mach 0.7 | 
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| RGM-84 Harpoon | Active radar homing | Mach 0.7 |
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| MGM-140 ATACMS | GPS-aided inertial navigation guidance | Mach 3 | |
| LRHW | - | Mach 17 | 
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Antisubmarine warfare
[edit]| Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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| RUM-139 VL-ASROC | Inertial navigation system | Subsonic | 
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ICBM
[edit]| Missile | Guidance | Speed | Image |
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| LGM-30 Minuteman | Inertial navigation system GPS |
≈Mach 23 | 
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Submarine-launched
[edit]| Missile | Guidance | Speed | |
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| UGM-133 Trident II | GPS | Mach 24 | 
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| UGM-109 Tomahawk | Global Positioning System | Mach 0.7 |
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| UGM-84 Harpoon | Active radar homing | Mach 0.7 |
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