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short range cruise

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Category of missiles.

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  • V-1 First significant cruise missile. German engineer, Paul Schmidt, working from the design of the Lorin tube, developed and patented a pulsed ramjet engine later modified and used in the V-1 Flying Bomb. After World War II the design was copied and further developed in both the United States and Soviet Union. But in both countries it was quickly superseded by higher performing missiles using turbojets.
  • Loon American short range cruise missile, a copy of the German V-1 (Fieseler Fi 103).