Why are cruise missiles still built when ballistic missiles are much harder to intercept?
>>65111970 stop being antisemitic
>>65111970Generally cruise missiles are more accurate, easier to launch, and cheaper. Sending your payload to space is about the most complicated and inefficient delivery mechanism available.
Because when you are known to possess nuclear weapons you can still launch cruise missiles without causing a major international incident
>>65111982not to mention a ground/sea skimming cruise missile with a stealthy shape/RAM paint can be deployed by your multi-billion dollar stealth bomber fleetwhere a ballistic missile is something relatively easy to spot as you aren't exactly hiding behind anythingand everyone that can spot it will assume the worst
>>65111970Consider that Iran's ballistic missiles haven't done jack shit, while their absolute poverty-tier cruise missiles (shasneeds) have destroyed literally billions of dollars worth of hardware, and see if that answers your question.
>>65111970That's a heck of a lot of solid fuel. Whereas subsonic cruise missiles just use a little jet fuel and air intakes, and propeller-powered ones are even more fuel-efficient.
>>65111970cruise missiles are cheaper, can bypass radar coverage and have much more options in terms of guidance
Why do we continue to manufacture rifles for the troops when tank cannons deal considerably more damage?
>>65111970>ballistic missiles are much harder
>>65111970Because those are more fuel efficient and smaller. That means it needs smaller truck to move missile around. That in turn makes it cheaper to operate. If something is cheaper, you can probably afford more of 'em.
>>65111970Read US navy white papers from the 1980s-2000s. Cruise missiles are cheaper, stealthier, easier to make software for, easier to do tactics with, and carry bigger warheads. Technology has progressed to make tactical ballistics practical too, but physics hasn't changed.>>65111989That's a leftover cope from last century's peaceniks. America, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan, SK, NK and India all use conventional ballistics.
>>65114808but none of them use conventional ICBMs; though SK does have a conventional IRBM
