How a cruise missile works.

Knight Ridder/Tribune | February 27, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Marshall Brain

We hear about cruise missiles on the news all the time. At the beginning of a war, the United States has been known to launch a hundred or more Tomahawk cruise missiles. Cruise missiles can also be used one or two at a time. There is often speculation about the possibility of using a cruise missile to hit specific targets in enemy countries.

Which leads to the obvious question: what is a cruise missile? And why are they so popular?

If you want to put it as succinctly as possible, a cruise missile is a small, robotic jet ...

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