Anti-ballistic missile
An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a missile designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles: the strategic ballistic missiles used to deliver nuclear weapons or their elements in flight trajectory. ABMs may also be used against chemical or biological payloads.
Defense of Moscow
There is a limited ABM system around Moscow, an upgraded Galosh known in the west as the ABM-4 Gorgon. The interceptor missiles are armed with a nuclear warhead. See also below.
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