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					Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop  I do not think this is true.  The missile has to overcome gravity on the way up.  The opposite is true on the way down.  After lift-off, a rocket may move rather slowly , relative to the speed it will have just before it lands. 
 
I am unreliably informed that a SCUD's maximum altitude is ~200 km, far above the operating altitude of warplanes. | 
	
 it depends how far away the target is, what were they shooting at?