DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger

Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by jacquesm on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:55PM (#22361708)

Missile usually just means something shot at something else. It doesn't need its own propulsion and it does not need its own guidance system. A stone from a slingshot counts as a missile by the normal definition.

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Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by starpilot on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:01PM (#22361758)

I'm aware of the etymology. Mitto, mittere. In modern ordnance context, missile = guided, rocket = unguided. Even though both use rocket motors (and here they usually say motor rather than engine).

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Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by globuous on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:30PM (#22362290)

Balistic missiles aren't really guided. They're closer to the slingshot approach.

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Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by Aenyn on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:32AM (#22364152)

But they are guided though, how else would the different warheads be able to have different targets when they are all launched in the same missile.

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