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To: cake_crumb

It's a cruise missile, not a ICBM.

ICBMs go WAY up in the air, exit the atmosphere, and then come back down - hence the "ballistic" part of their name.

Cruise missiles are like unmanned kamikaze airplanes. They fly to their target in the atmosphere either at high altitude or at low level.


19 posted on 03/17/2005 12:44:41 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr
Cruise missiles are like unmanned kamikaze airplanes. They fly to their target in the atmosphere either at high altitude or at low level.

Well, if we got technical we could just name these suckers ICCM InterContinental Cruise Missiles.

65 posted on 03/18/2005 11:38:58 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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