[VaBthang4]

"You need to have a general idea of where your target is when the missile is fired but the missile contains its own seeker head and can acquire and hit moving ships on its own."

Thanks.

Then it is not a "cruise missile" it is just a missile with nice range.

[sukhoi-30mki]

By your logic,then the Tomahawk is the world’s sole cruise missile!!!!

[CarrotAndStick]

There are two kinds of missiles, ballistic and cruise. Ballistic missiles follow a parabolic path to attain apogee, and then fall back to the target, if the initial half of the ballistic path was as per calculations.

Cruise missiles avoid that ballistic part of flight. It can take any course, and isn’t constrained to the ballistic flight path.