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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 1020141" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>'Ballistic' in its base form relates to the physics of flight trajectory only.</p><p>The Latin origin of the word 'missile' means to send.</p><p></p><p>Once the guidance system has run its course, or has been disabled, and aerodynamics, gravity and other involuntary factors of the trajectory determine the final destination, a missile becomes ballistic. </p><p></p><p>'Precision guided' is the current terminology used when classifying actively steered projectiles (not always delivering an explosive payload), but if they are designed to run, even for a split second, without guidance, then they are also deemed ballistic. </p><p></p><p>In the case of the cruise missile (and the specific example, the Tomahawk series 109 all variants), launch is via a pressurised discharge from the storage container, before the onboard rocket, wing deployment and guidance systems take over, and so during the changeover it is a purely ballistic device.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 1020141, member: 175144"] 'Ballistic' in its base form relates to the physics of flight trajectory only. The Latin origin of the word 'missile' means to send. Once the guidance system has run its course, or has been disabled, and aerodynamics, gravity and other involuntary factors of the trajectory determine the final destination, a missile becomes ballistic. 'Precision guided' is the current terminology used when classifying actively steered projectiles (not always delivering an explosive payload), but if they are designed to run, even for a split second, without guidance, then they are also deemed ballistic. In the case of the cruise missile (and the specific example, the Tomahawk series 109 all variants), launch is via a pressurised discharge from the storage container, before the onboard rocket, wing deployment and guidance systems take over, and so during the changeover it is a purely ballistic device. [/QUOTE]
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