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The DM is notorious for bad writing, poor headlines, and even worse photo captions. Pick any article on the DM and read the comments. People are always taking them to task for these problems. There is another article today with colorized photos of WW II aircraft and the captions are a complete mess. People are really ripping them. I thought that, maybe, "missile" in Brit English is synonymous with "bomb" in American English. That often happens. But, nope, their definition is pretty much the same as ours: missile in British (ˈmɪsaɪl ) noun 1. any object or weapon that is thrown at a target or shot from an engine, gun, etc 2. a. a rocket-propelled weapon that flies either in a fixed trajectory (ballistic missile) or in a trajectory that can be controlled during flight (guided missile) b. (as modifier) a missile carrier Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers I suppose you could stretch and say the "etc" in "any weapon thrown from an engine, gun, etc" could include aircraft. But that is really stretching it.