On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.

The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.

Research, development test and evaluation funds, devoted to missiles in 1960 were 3 to 4 times as large as those devoted to aircraft, and actual missile procurement is expected to exceed aircraft procurement by 1963.

Nuclear weapons are fearsome, but the long-range ballistic missile gives them a stealth and merciless swiftness which is much more terrifying.

We must make certain that the aircraft is finished before we give the entire job to the missile.

One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.

Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;

but the airfield, on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile.

This is the point on which so many people have written off the aircraft in favor of the missile.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

Even if this is some day possible, there remains the 30-minute time of flight of a missile to its overseas target.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

Add also a comparatively primitive industrial plant which would severely limit our capacity to keep abreast of the Soviets even in the missile field which is reputed to be our main strength.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

In addition, disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in excess of what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill.

There would seem to be some small solace in the prospect that the missile race between nations is at the same time accelerating the study of the space around us, giving us a long-sought ladder from which to peer at alien regions.

* 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

An anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles ( a missile for missile defense ).

Since World War II, main battle tanks have largely replaced gun-armed tank destroyers although lightly armored anti tank guided missile ( ATGM ) carriers are commonly used for supplementary long-range anti-tank work.

Since World War II, main battle tanks have largely replaced gun-armed tank destroyers although lightly armored anti tank guided missile ( ATGM ) carriers are commonly used for supplementary long-range anti-tank work.

As with other semi-active radar guided missiles, the missile does not generate radar signals, but instead homes in on reflected continuous-wave signals from the launch platform's radar.

Designed with the same form-and-fit factors as the previous generation of semiactive guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget missile with active guidance.

The Ministry of Supply selected Avro out of the British manufacturers though it had no previous experience in working on guided weapons other than some private venture work ; Handley Page had suggested a missile but the Elliots gyro based guidance system was inaccurate beyond.

* Nose cone, used to refer to the forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft

A cruise missile is a guided missile that carries an explosive payload and is propelled, usually by a jet engine, towards a land-based or sea-based target.

These advances developed into guided missiles and guided bombs, and later into the modern cruise missile.

Immediately after the war the United States Air Force had 21 different guided missile projects including would-be cruise missiles.

USS Winston S. Churchill ( DDG-81 ) | USS Winston S. Churchill, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer | Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy.

After the war, the advent of the guided missile allowed destroyers to take on the surface combatant roles previously filled by battleships and cruisers.

Modern destroyers, also known as guided missile destroyers, are equivalent in tonnage but vastly superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles.

Guided missile destroyers such as the Arleigh Burke class are actually larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers, due to their massive size at long, displacement ( 9200 tons ) and armament of over 90 missiles.

* 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

*, an Adelaide-class guided missile frigate launched in 1980 and active as of 2012

These machines contributed to the Henschel Werke Hs 293 and Hs 294 guided missiles developed by the German military between 1941 and 1945, which were the precursors to the modern cruise missile.

Its equipment consisted of fifty-six ballistic missile defenses ; seventy-seven armored personnel carriers and sixty-seven " look-alikes ;" eighteen 122 mm and fifty-three 152 mm towed artillery units ; nine 120 mm combined guns / mortars ; seventy AT-4 Spigot, nineteen AT-5 Spandrel, and twenty-seven AT-6 Spiral anti-tank guided weapons ; a 73 mm SPG-9 recoilless launcher, forty-five MT-12 100 mm anti-tank guns ; and thirty ZU-23 23 mm and twelve S-60 57 mm air defense guns.

In a modern military, a missile is a self-propelled guided weapon system.

* A powered, guided munition that travels through the air or space is known as a missile ( or guided missile.

It was probably man's first successful flight in a missile.

* 1957 – The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.

A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory.

Interestingly enough, this missile was returned from the flight line as defective a day earlier.

In addition, the pilots of the Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor bombers could tie their systems into those of the missile and make use of the guidance system to help plot their own flight plan, since the unit in the missile was more advanced than that in the aircraft.

In the meantime, Britain should halt the flight of planes armed with nuclear weapons, end nuclear testing, not proceed with missile bases and not provide nuclear weapons to any other country.

The first successful flight of an Atlas missile to full range occurred 28 November 1958.

The first test flight was carried out on 9 July 1959, and the missile was accepted for service on 1 September.

25 minutes — sub-orbital spaceflight in an elliptic flightpath ; the flightpath is part of an ellipse with a vertical major axis ; the apogee ( halfway through the midcourse phase ) is at an altitude of approximately 1, 200 km ; the semi-major axis is between 3, 186 km and 6, 372 km ; the projection of the flightpath on the Earth's surface is close to a great circle, slightly displaced due to earth rotation during the time of flight ; the missile may release several independent warheads, and penetration aids such as metallic-coated balloons, aluminum chaff, and full-scale warhead decoys.

Whether a guided missile uses a targeting system, a guidance system or both, it needs a flight system.

The flight system uses the data from the targeting or guidance system to maneuver the missile in flight, allowing it to counter inaccuracies in the missile or to follow a moving target.

The France | French Exocet missile in flight

The modern uses of radar are highly diverse, including air traffic control, radar astronomy, air-defense systems, antimissile systems ; marine radars to locate landmarks and other ships ; aircraft anticollision systems ; ocean surveillance systems, outer space surveillance and rendezvous systems ; meteorological precipitation monitoring ; altimetry and flight control systems ; guided missile target locating systems ; and ground-penetrating radar for geological observations.

Although they moved quickly in flight, early re-entry systems slowed dramatically once they reached the lower atmosphere, which gave time for a fast missile to attack it.

FLAGE scored a direct hit against a MGM-52 Lance missile in flight, at White Sands Missile Range in 1987.

In the low-level role, which had originally been intended to be performed by the cancelled BAC TSR-2, the V Force were considered by Air Staff planners to be largely immune from interception, the Soviet air defences being assessed as having no significant interception capability below 1, 500 ft, any remaining threat coming from the SA-3 low-level surface-to-air missile, flight planners taking care to route aircraft around known SA-3 sites.

Although Hitler commented on 22 September 1943, that " It is a great load off our minds that we have dispensed with the radio guiding-beam ; now no opening remains for the British to interfere technically with the missile in flight ", about 20 % of the operational V-2 launches were beam-guided.

The missile was launched from an infantry deployable sled and was guided by a remote joystick control box some distance from the launching sled via wire spooled out during the missile's flight.