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Cruise missile

A cruise missile is 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.[1] Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high precision. Modern cruise missiles are capable of traveling at high subsonic, supersonic, or hypersonic speeds, are self-navigating, and are able to fly on a non-ballistic, extremely low-altitude trajectory.

For a missile that follows a ballistic trajectory, see Ballistic missile.

(>1000–1500 km) Russia – hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile[8][9][10][11]

3M22 Zircon

(Air-Sol Nucléaire de 4e Génération) France – scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile being developed by France[12][13]

ASN4G

(≈800–1500 km) India / Russia – hypersonic cruise missile[14][11] under development as of 2011 in India and Russia[15][16]

BrahMos-II

ground-launched missile, out of service

MGM-1 Matador

ground-launched missile, out of service

MGM-13 Mace

submarine-launched missile, out of service

SSM-N-8 Regulus

ground-launched missile, out of service

SM-62 Snark

air-launched missile, out of service

AGM-28 Hound Dog

out of service

BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile

air-launched cruise missile, 350 to 550 missiles and W80 warheads still in service

AGM-86 ALCM

cruise missile in a nuclear submarine-, surface ship-, and ground-launched models, nuclear models out of service but warheads kept in reserve.

BGM-109 Tomahawk

air-launched missile, out of service[72]

AGM-129 ACM

Affordable Weapon System

Cruise missile submarine

(pioneer of technology that led to the Cruise missile)

Eugene Vielle

Expendable launch system

List of cruise missiles

List of rocket aircraft

Lists of weapons

Low Cost Miniature Cruise Missile

(has lists of various Soviet missiles)

NATO reporting name

Weapon of mass destruction

Media related to Cruise missiles at Wikimedia Commons

Archived 11 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine — From the website of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

An introduction to cruise missiles

: A Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Missile Threat