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[edit] CMs vs unmanned aircraft
Good article, but there is an apparent problem with definition:
Cruise missiles are, in essence, unmanned aircraft.
Japanese kamikaze aircraft could be viewed as manned cruise missiles.
Logically, doesn’t this just mean that kamikaze aircraft are manned aircraft?
--Smallbone10
- Heh, good point. I guess the contributor based his/her definition on an implicit assumption of a cruise missile being a targeted airborne explosive device. --Wernher 22:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
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- I made an edit that I think should help clean this up. Japan, in an effort to gain a tactical advantage against the allied forces resorted to kamikaze aircraft, another early predecessor to the super-accurate cruise missiles of today. Hope it helps. - Chairboy 22:57, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
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- I think there should be additional clairfication. The IJN used many types of aircraft for kamikaze missions that were for other purposes, such as the Zero fighter and various torpedo bombers. However, there was one aircraft that they designed specifically designed for kamikaze attacks, the Ohka, which was a rocket-propelled and, later, jet-propelled manned flying bomb. The tactics used and developed for the Ohka even mirror modern cruise missiles, such as the Betty bomber-carried type and plans for submarine and carrier-based launchers. --YoungFreud 20:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
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I would like to see a list of nations that currently possess cruise missile technology. Also it would be historically interesting to know when and how each nation developed the technology. I would think a concise table would serve.
[edit] Stealth CMs
Does anyone know anything about the the newer "stealth" cruise missiles? Something about those would be great. --Commking 5 Aug 2005
[edit] "CRUSE" an acronym?
I remember that back in the late 60s "cruise" was spelled "cruse" and it was an acronym. Now has my ageing brain fabricated a recollection of something that never was? Or is "cruse" indeed an acronym for something, and if so what? A quick Google on the internet shows that "cruse" is an alternate spelling, but no more. Jm546 02:55, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
- The only thing I could find was this: "ALCM - Air Launch Cruse Missile". I found it at [1] Fresheneesz 23:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Babur
Should not the large part on this page about Pakistan's Babur cruise missile better be moved to Babur missile? - Andre Engels 13:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
The Babur Missile is the Chinese developed export version of the YJ-62 (C-602) anti-ship cruise missile and is supposed to have a range of 280km to adhere to the MTCR guidelines. http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/navalmissile/yj623.asp
Chanakyathegreat 05:39, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Models and specifications
What models of cruise missiles are there? What fuel do they use? What different explosives are usually used? These would be useful things to have on this page. Fresheneesz 00:00, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nothing much about Soviet Cruise Missile Program??
There is too less info about Soviet Cruise Missiles. I saw a Tomahawk pictures, ok its justified as it is best cruise missile. I think we should add atleast one Point abt Soviet Cruise Missile program. Cruise Missiles should characterized by 1. warheads-Nuclear/Conventional, Already done 2. Targets-Land Attack/Anti-Ship 3. Launch Platforms- Ship, Submarine, Aircraft and Land.
we can also write about Supersonic missiles.
[edit] Air-to-air cruise missiles
The paragraph about China's and Taiwan's cruise missiles mentioned air-to-air cruise missiles. I am deleting it unless someone can give an example of an air-to-air cruise missile. Profhobby 03:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disputed
The Tomahawk and ALCM were the product of a joint USN and USAF acquisition program. The Tomahawk was NOT originally a competing design for the USAF.
[edit] POV
The reference to USA "assasination" is clearly not NPOV.
[edit] V-1
"However, the V-1 did not have the level of accuracy of a modern tactical cruise missile." - Isn't this a bit stating the obvious?
[edit] Differentiating from UAVs
As the UAV project progresses in organizing the scope of articles on UAVs on Wikipedia, the project naturally bumps up against the fuzzy line seperating UAVs from cruise missles. For the purposes of keeping things organized, I've added a differentiating statment in the intro paragraph, and will be adding a similar one at UAV. Akradecki 00:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cruisers?
I'm inclined to think that the similarity in names between cruise missiles and cruisers is simply a coincidence. Cruise missiles are fired from land, from submarines, from aircraft, and from many different classes of ship. Cruisers have also been around longer than cruise missiles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SHCGRA Max (talk • contribs) 20:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Cruisers?
I'm inclined to think that the similarity in names between cruise missiles and cruisers is simply a coincidence. Cruise missiles are fired from land, from submarines, from aircraft, and from many different classes of ship. Cruisers have also been around longer than cruise missiles, and so are hardly speciallised to carry them, beyond the fact that they are among the largest ships currently in service and cruise missiles tend to be quite large. I've removed the offending sentence.--SHCGRA Max 20:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
