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cruise missile

noun

a winged guided missile designed to deliver a conventional or nuclear warhead by flying at low altitudes to avoid detection by radar.

cruise missile

noun

an air-breathing low-flying subsonic missile that is continuously powered and guided throughout its flight and carries a warhead

cruise missile

A military missile equipped with an onboard computer that allows it to guide itself on a preprogrammed course over long distances by sensing the terrain and comparing it to maps stored in its memory. ( See smart weapons (see also smart weapons ).)

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Notes

Cruise missiles first came into public awareness during the Persian Gulf War .

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cruise missile vs. ballistic missile

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Second, airstrikes or even conventional cruise missile strikes, like in 2019, are also on the table - each carrying the risk of a retaliatory spiral, as seen in the air skirmishes that followed then.

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Zelensky said Ukraine has successfully tested its first domestically made ballistic weapon and upgraded its cruise missile Neptune to hit ground as well naval targets.

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Last week, Moscow was also reportedly the scene of the apparent targeted killing of a top engineer of its cruise missiles, deployed with the aim of sowing havoc and death in Ukrainian cities.

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Trump also diverged from his non-interventionist ideals by launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield, after Assad allegedly ordered a chemical weapons attack that killed scores of civilians in 2017.

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Ukraine said it shot down six of the cruise missiles.

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cruise control cruiser

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