Missile

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The word missile has a quite general meaning, but here it is to be understood as short for "missile systems" unless clearly indicated by the context. The definition of "missile system" used follow Wilson and Dunham 2020[1]


A missile system is a rocket (booster) plus a weaponized (munitions-carrying) payload

Resources

This looks like a good introduction to missiles.

The fabled 2003 APS ballistic missile defence report, to this day (mid 2022) the most comprehensive public report on all things missile defence (most newer stuff simply references this for any quantitative results, and then waves their hands about and declare this a "novel contribution")

The Wilson and Dunham paper suggesting a new way to classify missiles.

Todo

this page should be a short summary of missiles as it relates to arms control, with a short history (not a full history, that will be on the history page) of Von Braun and the V2, arms control treaties concerning missiles, then what systems are actively deployed/by whom, finally the future of missiles and how they relate to arms control

References