{"id":48964,"date":"2025-03-17T17:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48964"},"modified":"2025-03-17T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:32:44","slug":"military-what-is-a-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/military-what-is-a-ballistic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Military: what is a ballistic missile?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about military technology: the tutor looks up the term ballistic missile.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve heard of ballistic missiles for decades. Yet, what is one?<\/p>\n<p>\nA ballistic missile is rocket-propelled. It follows a ballistic curve: its propulsion stage lasts only a few minutes (angled upwards), then, from momentum, it continues to its peak. The upper part of its flight may be above the atmosphere. Thence, due to gravity, its path arcs downward to the target.<\/p>\n<p>Long-range ballistic missiles, sometimes known as intercontinental, may be able to reach virtually any target.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/users.cs.utah.edu\/~zachary\/computing\/lessons\/uces-5\/uces-5\/uces-5.html\">utah.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/armscontrolcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ballistic-vs.-Cruise-Missiles-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">armscontrolcenter.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about military technology: the tutor looks up the term ballistic missile. I&#8217;ve heard of ballistic missiles for decades. Yet, what is one? A ballistic missile is rocket-propelled. It follows a ballistic curve: its propulsion stage lasts only a few &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/military-what-is-a-ballistic-missile\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military: what is a ballistic missile?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2634],"tags":[3571,3553],"class_list":["post-48964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-arms","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48964"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48971,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48964\/revisions\/48971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}