Guided and ballistic weapons that fly themselves to a target rather than being fired as a simple projectile: intercontinental, intermediate-range, tactical and submarine-launched ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, air-to-air, air-to-surface, anti-ship and anti-tank guided missiles, glide bombs and loitering munitions. Belongs here: any weapon system whose own attested weapon class names a missile, guided munition or loitering munition. Does not belong here: an unpowered artillery shell or an uncrewed reconnaissance platform with no munition of its own, which belong to Artillery And Mortars or Unmanned Systems And Drones. Reassigned from the Weapons Systems Contemporary catch-all.
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the first missiles to be used operationally were a series of rocket based missiles developed by Nazi Germany during World War II including the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket which used mechanical autopilot to keep the missile flying along a pre-chosen route.
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