[Russell]

تا جاییکه من میدونم موشک فرقش با راکت اینه که راکت یک پرتابه هست ولی موشک نیروی پیشران داره. بنابر این موشک های مستقیم شلیک شونده از هواپیماها موشک هستند ولی بمب ها که با نیروی گرانش به زمین میرسند موشک نیستند.

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A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellants carried within the rocket before use.[SUP][1][/SUP] Rocket engines work by action and reaction. Rocket engines push rockets forward by expelling their exhaust in the opposite direction at high speed. Rockets rely on momentum, airfoils, auxiliary reaction engines, gimballed thrust, momentum wheels, deflection of the exhaust stream, propellant flow, spin, and/or gravity to help control flight.

In a modern military usage, a missile, or guided missile, is a self-propelled guided weapon system, as opposed to an unguided self-propelled munition, referred to as just a rocket. Missiles have four system components: targeting and/or guidance, flight system, engine, and warhead. Missiles come in types adapted for different purposes: surface-to-surface and air-to-surface missiles (ballistic, cruise, anti-ship, anti-tank, etc.), surface-to-air missiles (anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic), air-to-air missiles, and anti-satellite missiles. All known existing missiles are designed to be propelled during powered flight by chemical reactions inside a rocket engine, jet engine, or other type of engine.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP] Non-self-propelled airborne explosive devices are generally referred to as shells and usually have a shorter range than missiles.