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The missile

The missile consists, like a cannonball, of a propellant charge and an explosive head that is sent to explode in the enemies. The propellant charge is what carries this explosive head to the enemies, whether this head is a bomb of ordinary conventional explosives, or an atomic or hydrogen bomb.

However, this propulsive charge accompanies the explosive head at times on its way to the enemies.

This driving charge is fuel that burns, and with it
Its oxygen: petroleum, for example (kerosene), is a liquid, and along with its oxygen, which is also a liquid. Each is in a closet, and the two meet in a tube similar to a cannon tube, which is the combustion closet. Large amounts of them burn in a short time, and this combustion generates large amounts of gases, just as happens in a cannon. These gases, under their enormous pressure, want to come out of the tube, the combustion tube, or the combustion tank, but they find only a narrow exit from which they can exit, and the missile is aimed so that these gases exit, not in the direction of the enemies, but in the complete opposite direction, and these gases can exit through this narrow exit. , with tremendous speed, reaction in the missile. A reaction that pushes all of this missile into a direction opposite to the direction from which it exited, and the gas headed towards it. As the gas exited in this way, it kicked the missile with what it carried and it departed from the other direction, towards the enemies.

This kick always remains, and the push remains, as long as it comes out
Gases from the combustion closet.

The difference between a cannon and a missile:

The cannon pushes its bomb away using its gases. But this propulsion ends as soon as the bomb exits the cannon tube. The heavy, thick cannon tube remains in its place on the ground, waiting for another shell to be fired from it.

As for the missile, its propulsion is standing while it is flying. Because its gases coming out of the combustion tank keep pushing it in the opposite direction.

The missile was almost a flying cannon, flying with a bomb,
And a driving force, for a while.

The cannon shell is slower than the rocket shell. that
The missile is about ten times faster.

(Illustration of a rocket launcher)
(Illustration of the cannon)