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Cruise missile
Guided missile with precision targeting capabilities and multiple launch platforms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a missile that follows a ballistic trajectory, see Ballistic missile.
A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target.[1] Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high precision. Modern cruise missiles are capable of traveling at high subsonic, supersonic, or hypersonic speeds, are self-navigating, and are able to fly on a non-ballistic, extremely low-altitude trajectory.
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