An AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile in flight (1980)
An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft. Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land targets with conventional, nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.
Specific types of ALCMs (current, past and under development) include:
- AGM-28 Hound Dog (USA)
- AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (USA)
- AGM-86 ALCM (USA)
- AGM-129 ACM (USA)
- AGM-158 JASSM (USA)
- AGM-158C LRASM (USA)
- AGM-181 LRSO (USA)
- Air-Sol Moyenne Portée ASMP (France)
- ASN4G (France)
- BrahMos (India/Russia)
- BrahMos-II (India/Russia)
- CJ-10 (China)
- Delilah (Israel)
- Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad) (Pakistan)
- Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (USA)
- Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface (USA)
- Ra'ad-II (Pakistan)
- Joint Strike Missile (Norway/USA)
- Kalibr-A (Russia)
- Taurus KEPD 350 (Germany/Sweden)
- Kh-20 (USSR)
- Kh-32 (Russia)
- Kh-35 (Russia)
- Kh-55/Kh-555 (USSR/Russia)
- Kh-59 (USSR/Russia)
- Kh-61 (USSR/Russia)
- Kh-101/102 (Russia)
- KSR-5 (USSR)
- MICLA-BR (Brazil)
- Perseus (France/UK)[1]
- Popeye (Israel)
- Saber (UAE)
- SOM (Turkey)
- Soumar (Iran)
- Storm Shadow/SCALP EG (France/UK)
- Wan Chien (Taiwan)
- Ya-Ali (Iran)
- 3M-51 Alfa (Russia)
- 3M22 Zircon (Russia)
- 10Kh (USSR)
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