Syrian "gas rockets" appear homemade and incapable of flying 5-10 miles to target.

[Motown_Johnny]

118. Are you trying to be deceptive or are you just way off base?

Those are manned rocket controls. They don't qualify as missiles because humans are at the controls. You may as well call a plane used by a Kamikaze a rocket since it has/had a human controlling it.




http://www.wsmr.army.mil/PAO/wuaws/Pages/Rocketsandmissiles.aspx

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Rockets and missiles


With more than 40,500 rocket and missile firings safely conducted during 50 years of existence, White Sands Missile Range has certainly lived up to its name.

One of the most asked questions is, "What is the difference between a rocket and a missile?" Range employees usually simplify the discussion by saying a missile has a guidance system or brain to get it to its destination and a rocket just goes where it is initially pointed.

The guidance system can be fairly simple like the infrared seeker on the small, shoulder-fired, Stinger missile. The missile detects the heat emitted in the exhaust of a jet and guides itself to the hottest spot - right up the tailpipe.

A rocket, on the other hand, like the Black Brant goes straight up in the air carrying scientific payloads for NASA and others. It is fired out of a tower or from a rail, both of which can be tilted to compensate for wind conditions so the rocket flies fairly straight and stays on the missile range.