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Old 08-22-2011, 07:00 PM   #11
Hank Chinaski
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Re: My God, you are an idiot.

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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?
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