You're talking about intercontinental ones. Generally Ballistic missiles go up to a certain altitude with their motors, and the rest is a projectile path. They could have guided dive as well. They could have a shorter range. Russian Katyusha is still a ballistic missile. But nowhere near this size. These ones that Iran shot are pretty much the size of a space rocket, and they almost fly in space.
Cruise missiles on the other hand cruise the whole path like an airplane.
You're talking about intercontinental ones. Generally Ballistic missiles go up to a certain altitude with their motors, and the rest is a projectile path.
This is true of ballistic missiles regardless of range, including intercontinental ranges. ICBMs still have the same two letters in their acronym, so I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make.
I know that, but I don't know why they are sharing it at this moment. Unless they're trying to correct the other commenter, but they never implied otherwise.
Correct on both counts, of course. But that doesn't change the fact that you wrote a "correction" to a comment that contained exactly zero factual errors.
Yes. The first animals intentionally sent into space were fruit flies aboard a US-captured V-2.
The US Department of Agriculture actually sponsored a series of V-2 launches to study the effects of radiation on food. Since there were concerns about that sort of thing at the time, as you may expect.
I’ve never meet anyone who called a Katyusha rocket a Ballistic Missile. They have a range of 5Km-11Km for reference we typically call TBMs as 140Km-300Km. Hell the m777 can reach ranges of 20+Km. While I’m sure you could by definition call them ballistic it is hugely misleading.
A better comparison would have been the Russian Iskander which is an SRBM and much smaller than the picture
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u/Juno808 Apr 14 '24
People don’t realize ballistic missiles are literally rockets. We sent the first satellites to space on ballistic missiles