ABM, antiballistic missile - a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles; "the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs"

buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1, doodlebug - a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb

Exocet - a guided anti-ship missile developed by the French government

guidance device, guidance system - a system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile)

homing device - the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective

missile - rocket carrying passengers or instruments or a warhead

space probe - a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation

SAM, surface-to-air missile - a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target

payload, warhead, load - the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents