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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.
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it depends how far away the target is, what were they shooting at?