Missile - Imperial Missile Types: Astartes Anti-Plant Missiles - Astartes Anti-Plant Missiles are a stronger variant of the standard Imperial Anti-Plant Missiles. They release a vicious cocktail of toxins, viral agents, defoliants, and anti-fungal agents on detonation that reduce even the heartiest flora to a foul-smelling muck in minutes. Typically used to deny cover and to clear landing zones and fortification sites.Blacksword Missiles - Utilised exclusively by the Dark Angels Chapter's elite 2nd Company, the Ravenwing, the Blacksword Missile is designed to fit under the wings of the Nephilim Jetfighters. These missiles take their name from the ominous black contrails they leave in their wake, and are used primarily to bring down enemy flyers and destroy lightly armoured ground vehicles.Bloodstrike Missiles - Bloodstrike Missiles are specialised missiles used by the Blood Angels and their Successor Chapters' Stormraven gunships. These missiles have a two-stage solid fuel rocket booster designed to deliver a punishing blow to an enemy tank.Concussion Missiles - Concussion Missiles are outfitted with powerful high explosives and are very effective at breaking up entrenched enemy fortifications. Concussion Missiles are much beloved by the Battle-Brothers of the Imperial Fists garrisoned at Watch Fortress Erioch in the Jericho Reach while serving a term with the Deathwatch.Deathstrike Missiles - The Deathstrike Missile is an intercontinental ballistic missile which is often equipped with a warhead that is classified as a weapon of mass destruction and is fired exclusively by the Deathstrike Missile Launcher. Over the past ten standard millennia they have been used against nearly every enemy of the Imperium. The warhead can be armed with a variety of horrifying payloads, each Deathstrike Missile tailored to wreak maximum destruction on its intended target. With a single successful launch, a Deathstrike armed with a Godspear warhead can bring down an enemy Titan, punching the towering war engine from its feet amid the false sun of a reactor meltdown. One well-placed Deathstrike Missile can deliver virulent pathogens to the core of an army, wipe out the entire command structure of the foe in a holocaust of billowing plasma, or crush the morale of a wavering enemy with its sudden, god-like wrath. Most terrifying of all are the venerated Vortex Missiles. These warheads are able to sunder reality itself in a roiling wave of Warp energy that guarantees the annihilation of anything caught in their blast. Vortex Warheads are so rare that the improper launch of one atop a Deathstrike Missile is punishable by immediate summary execution.Flakk Missiles - Flakk Missiles are designed to serve as anti-aircraft munitions so that when they explode they release a specially-shaped charge containing shrapnel intended to pierce the often lightly-armoured airframes of enemy aircraft. A Flakk Missile can be outfitted with heat-seeking or radar-based targetting packages.Frag Missiles - Frag Missiles, also called "Fragstorm Missiles," are designed to explode on impact with any surface, raking the immediate area with lethal shrapnel composed of aerodynamic metallic shards. Though Frag Missiles are primarily intended to be used as anti-infantry weapons, they can also be deployed effectively against light vehicles. Frag Missiles are often ineffective against heavily armoured infantry.Incendiary Missiles - Incendiary Missiles are commonly employed to flush out enemies in entrenched cover. Incendiary Missiles contain a slow-burning promethium distillate that ignites when the missile explodes. The Promethium will also continue to burn in the area for a significant time after the missile has detonated.Harpoon Missile - A Harpoon Missile is a Titan-grade missile. This one-shot weapon takes the form of a wire-guided missile whose barbed head becomes lodged in an opponent Titan's body. Electrical surges produced by the missile short out the enemy Titan's systems and guidance controls. Moreover, control of the Titan successfully struck by the missile passes from the target to the Harpoon Missile's origin Titan along the embedded wire.Helios Defence Missile - Helios Defence Missiles are used to protect ground-based Imperial vehicles and installations against enemy aircraft. The Helios Defence Missile is known to have been used in the Ironstorm Missile Pod, particularly the larger variant carried by the Acastus Knight Porphyrion. These missiles are equipped if the Knight is heading into battle-zones where the danger from airborne assault is apparent.Hellstrike Missile - A Hellstrike Missile is an Imperial solid-fuel air-to-surface anti-armour missile outfitted with a high-explosive warhead intended for use during ground support airstrikes. It is essentially identical in function to a Hunter-Killer Missile in that it is a guided weapon equipped with an on-board cogitator or artificial intelligence known as a "Logis-Engine." Sensors in the missile's nose transmit information on the location and movement of the target and the surrounding environment to the Logis-Engine, which alters the trajectory of the missile in flight by manipulating its stabilising fins, allowing it to match the target's movements and avoid any obstacles. A Hellstrike Missile is larger than its Hunter-Killer counterpart and is often fired at high velocity while the aircraft deploying it is in flight. Hellstrike Missiles are a common armament on many forms of Imperial military aircraft.Hellfury Missile - The Hellfury Missile is an anti-personnel, air to-surface missile deployed on Aeronautica Imperialis aircraft like the Vendetta heavy gunship and the Valkyrie gunship. Each Hellfury warhead is packed with dozens of incendiary sub-munitions which are designed to be released in an airburst across a wide area. The Hellfury Missile was designed to serve an anti-personnel function and is particularly useful in assaulting enemy troops dug-in behind cover or large hordes of basic infantry moving across open ground, such as Ork Boyz and Tyranid ground swarms.Hunter-Killer Missile - The missile itself is technically a large Krak Missile with added range but the main difference is that a Hunter-Killer Missile has an onboard cogitator known as a Logis-Engine. It uses sensors located in its nose cap to guide itself towards the target, first following the target while avoiding obstacles, and then exploding on impact. There are several different variants of the Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher in existence; including the Mark X Deliverance, the Mark VIII Avenger, and the Mark IX Voss Patterns.Krak Missiles - Krak Missiles, also called "Krakstorm Missiles," are primarily intended to serve as anti-vehicle weapons, and contain a high-strength shaped charge with a relatively small blast radius that causes massive damage to anything it hits with minimal collateral damage. Krak Missiles are also very effective against heavily armoured infantry, bunkers and other armoured or fortified static targets where their concentrated explosives will often punch holes straight through armour. However, a Krak Missile's small blast radius makes them impractical for use against most infantry and moving targets.Mindstrike Missiles - Mindstrike Missiles contain clusters of psi-reactive munitions. They are effective against hordes of light troops, and particularly deadly against psykers. For this reason they are often employed by the Grey Knights and the forces of the Inquisition.Melta Missiles - Melta Missiles are fired from a Salvo Launcher. Their warhead contains a massive Melta charge similar to a Melta Bomb in effect that emits a furious, high-intensity melta beam when detonated. This beam is a searing blast of heat that can rip through heavy armour and fortified positions alike.Plasma Missiles - Plasma Missiles are the larger, missile-incorporated incarnations of Imperial Plasma Grenades and are highly effective against most foes. A single salvo of Plasma Missiles can easily turn enemy troops into a smoking crater. It is for this reason, however, that the user of Plasma Missile weaponry must take care when firing one of these dangerous weapons to make sure that he and his comrades are sufficiently out of harm's way. Plasma Missiles utilise a deliberate plasma containment failure that erupts into a blast of white-hot energy upon impact. The dense plasma core of the missile is rarely entirely consumed in the initial explosion and will leave behind a glowing, energised orb that acts like a miniature sun that leaves the immediate area of the impact unapproachable for some time. Plasma Missiles are especially effective against vehicles as the plasma core can quickly penetrate most vehicles' armour.Titan-grade Plasma Missiles - This variant of a Plasma Missile is a large, Titan-grade missile and Plasma Weapon deployed on Imperial Titans and the Leagues of Votann Colossus. Like other Titan-grade missiles, the Plasma Missile takes up one carapace hard point on the Titan and is usually fitted before a battle. A Plasma Missile will break up during flight into six distinct masses of throbbing plasma before impact. In this way it is able to saturate a large area with its deadly cargo of plasma and ignore the effects of cover to deal tremendous damage, both to enemy Titans or other ground targets.Psyk-Out Missile - A Psyk-Out Missile's warhead contains a special additive that is laced within its explosive charge. The Adeptus Custodes reverently gather the dust that forms from the body of the Emperor of Mankind where He is entombed in the Golden Throne. This byproduct of the Golden Throne's arcane workings possesses a strong anti-psychic charge and can produce an effect on psykers and Warp entities similar to those produced by a psychic Null, a being afflicted with the Pariah Gene.Rad Missiles - Rad Missiles are Imperial antipersonnel missiles used primarily during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy that when detonated unleashed a deadly hail of radioactive material over the target area. These missiles, originally deployed on Terra, were a horror of the genetic wars waged on Humanity's homeworld during the Age of Strife, and used custom-designed warheads which possessed high explosive fragmentation charges lined with radioactive isotopes.Shieldbreaker Missile - A Shieldbreaker Missile is a munition fired by a carapace-mounted Missile Launcher on the Dominus-class Knight Castellan. Shieldbreaker Missiles are an ancient variant of the redoubtable Hunter-Killer Missile. These warheads incorporate Raptoris Machine Spirits (artificial intelligences) and empyric cascade micro-generators that allow them to disrupt and pass through enemy shields by skipping like hurled stones across the skin of reality, dipping minutely in and out of the Warp in micro-second flickers. Shieldbreaker Missiles are employed to punish those dishonourable enemies who cower behind veils of arcane energy or the massed ranks of lesser warriors.Stasis Missiles - Stasis Missiles were originally developed for use by Imperial Titans during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy and once detonated could enclose a given area within the time-stopping effects of a stasis field. Like other Titan support missiles, the Stasis Missile takes up one carapace point on the Titan that used it and is usually fitted to the walker before a battle. Rather than a traditional warhead, the Stasis Missile carries a Stasis Field Generator (SFG) which, upon impact, will literally freeze the passage of time within an area of space. Anything which is caught within this stasis field or moves into it will become utterly stuck in time, unable to move or take any other actions for as long as the field persists. Another variant of the Stasis Missile, much reduced in size, was designed for infantry use by the Astartes of the Space Marine Legions, especially the Dark Angels, during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. When detonated it produced a stasis field just like that of its Titan-grade variant, but one which affected a smaller area.Stormfury Missiles - Stormfury Missiles are heavy missiles deployed on the sponsons of the Primaris Space Marines' Storm Speeder Thunderstrike. It carries a powerful explosive punch and is intended to be used as an anti-armour weapon.Stormstrike Missiles - Stormstrike Missiles detonate with a thunderous boom that leaves those caught in the blast radius reeling and disoriented.Superfrag Missiles -  Superfrag Missiles are used as even more explosively powerful and long-ranged anti-personnel weapons than standard Frag Missiles since they explode into thousands of highly lethal fragments of shrapnel that can easily shred even heavily-armoured infantry. Superfrag Missiles are often deployed on orbit-to-surface Space Marine Hammerfall Bunkers as the ammunition for their Hammerfall Missile Launcher and are employed by the Desolation Squads of the Primaris Marines.Superkrak Missiles - Superkrak Missiles are even more potent and long-ranged anti-armour weapons than standard Krak Missiles that can shred heavy armour plates with their powerful, shaped explosion.  Superkrak Missiles are often deployed on orbit-to-surface Space Marine Hammerfall Bunkers as the ammunition for their Hammerfall Missile Launcher and are employed by the Desolation Squads of the Primaris Marines.Tempest Rocket - A Tempest Rocket is an Imperial ballistic rocket munition used by some Imperial military aircraft in both anti-aircraft and anti-armour roles, including the Adeptus Astartes Storm Eagle assault gunship. The Tempest Rocket was an antiquated design that was actually being phased out in favour of more powerful munitions at the time of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium, though it is still in use in the late 41st Millennium. Tempest Rockets are nevertheless simple and reliable ballistic weapons able to deal with moderately armoured targets and shoot down enemy aircraft.Vengor Missile - A Vengor Launcher is an extremely powerful, long-range, anti-infantry missile launcher employed by the Primaris Space Marine sergeant of a Desolation Squad of the Adeptus Astartes. The single missile fired by a Vengor Launcher can reach extremely long ranges and its explosive blast radius is such that it is capable of wiping out whole squads of enemy infantry before they ever come into view.Vortex Missiles - The Vortex Missile, also called a Vortex Warhead, is an extremely rare and advanced type of specialised Warp-based ordnance used only in the direst of circumstances by the Astra Militarum, the Titan Legions or the Imperial Navy. The weapon is a recovered archeotech product of the Age of Technology and looks like a large ballistic missile mounted either on a Titan weapon hardpoint, or a Deathstrike Missile Launcher. The payload of the weapon is no mere explosive, but a complicated mechanism which shows many similarities with the Warp-Drives that allow the Imperium of Man's starships to travel between the stars. Once detonated, the warhead's mechanism opens an uncontrolled "hole" into the Immaterium from realspace, which utterly annihilates anything caught in its area of effect. Vortex weapons are extremely difficult to construct, and are also fickle and unpredictable. Indeed, once opened by a Warp weapon's detonation, the Warp vortex can drift randomly around, sustaining itself on any present Warp energies, and annihilating friend and foe alike. Vortex Warheads are only deployed and used with special authorisation from the Departmento Munitorum, and only when Imperial commanders are past any consideration of collateral damage. The firing of a Vortex Missile by Astra Militarum forces is normally the responsibility of the engaged force's lord commissar.Other Types: Missiles are extremely versatile and can potentially carry any conceivable type of warhead, including: Virus, Smoke, Gas, Tanglefoot, Haywire, and Photon Flash warheads.