Category:Missiles of the United Nations

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The UN has designed a wide variety of missiles, drones and buoys over its existance. This is a gathering of all designs that actually got researched and built. Skipped numbers represent proposed but unused designs.

UN Missile Naming Nomenclature

UN missiles are given a designation of the following format: (Launch Environment Code)(Mission Description Code)(Missile Type Code)-(Missile design number)(Modification Letter).

Launch Environment Codes

  • L - PDC or silo launched
  • F - Space vessel under 1000 tonnes displacement
  • S - Space vessel over 1000 tonnes displacement

Mission Description Codes

  • G - Designed to destroy land-based targets
  • B - Designed as a carrier stage that deploys a submunition
  • I - Designed to intercept targets in a defensive role
  • R - Designed to perform reconnaissance, detection, surveillance
  • S - Designed to destroy space-based targets
  • V - Designed for more than one role (generally, interception and attack)
  • Y - Designed to perform sensor surveys

Missile Type Code

  • M - Guided Missile
  • D - Drone
  • P - Probe or buoy without submunitions
  • N - Mine (probe or buoy with submunitions)