So, ballistic missiles use aerodynamic lift?
Aerodynamic lift is for horizontal flight.
Posted on 04/10/2007 10:20:15 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
By your logic every missile in the fleet is some form of cruise missile.
This is not a cruise missile.
As usual [with all things Russian] more hype than reality.
I’m not saying it poses no threat but it is not in the conventional sense a cruise missile.
So an Aim-9 is a cruise missile?
Err-you have atlast come to the crux of the issue.Ask yourself What powers the AIM-9 or the AIM-120 or the Maverick???& what powers the Harpoon,the Tomahawk & the Brahmos??The common factor gives you the definition.
So now, the Predator is a cruise missile by FAS definition.
~Grin~
Anyway, like I was saying, this is simply a missile.
Does the Predator crash into it’s target??
Scoring quiet a few owngoals here, aren’t you!!
Oi...
so now moving the goalposts a little further.
The definition is not one of flight characteristics but of propulsion?
You are probably the only one around here who thinks about cruise missiles this way.Good luck with that.
"“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.” "
Does that not describe a Predator UAV?
Cruise Missile: A missile that is an unmanned, self-propelled weapon-delivery vehicle that sustains flight through the use of aerodynamic lift over most of its flight path.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start1/glossary.htm
Kindly define the difference between how a rocket engine works & how jet engine works & see if there are a few differences?Thank you.
Luck?
Luck is a term best used when considering the capabilities of Russian Weapon Systems.
~grin~
Okay then....to that definition I will yield.
However, it is a FAS definition that contradicts another FAS definition for the same thing.
How so?
"A missile that is an unmanned, self-propelled weapon-delivery vehicle that sustains flight through the use of aerodynamic lift over most of its flight path."
That describes every friggin air to air missile in the inventory. Haha...
The FAS definition you provided versus the FAS definition that Sukhoi provided.
Yes, but as you pointed out the Coyote is merely a target drone without a warhead.
???
Why would we have a sea skimming, supersonic drone?
What possible use could we have for that?
~Grin~
So, ballistic missiles use aerodynamic lift?
Aerodynamic lift is for horizontal flight.
Sea-skimming missiles/drones are harder to detect on radar. Does this wipe that grin off?
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