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physics with a grudge and a flight plan.
means a self-propelled weapon guided to a target, trading a pilot for a computer and some math.
from from latin mittere, to send or let go — for most of history that meant rocks and arrows, until the 20th century added engines, gyroscopes, and geopolitics.
v2 originnazi germany built the first long-range ballistic missile
guidance leapgps turned dumb bombs into precision instruments
speed classhypersonic ones outrun most defense systems entirely
cuban crisisnearly ended civilization over missile placement in cuba