Ballistic Missile Types: A Guide To The Big 4
Ballistic Missile Types: A Guide To The Big 4 Unlike cruise missiles — which can travel close to the ground, are hard to detect, and can use GPS or be manually guided toward their marks — ballistic missiles are instead fired high into the air before falling unpowered back down toward their intended targets. Initial propulsion into the sky is done by rockets that use either solid or liquid fuel, and ballistic missiles have three stages of flight....