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Cruise missile

Guided missile with precision targeting capabilities and multiple launch platforms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial or naval targets, that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at an approximately constant speed. 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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A BGM-109 Tomahawk flying in November 2002