Hakanai Kimi wa Moukou o Hajimeru - Ch. 36

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Terminal velocity is by definition the speed of freefall. If you employ engines, you can achieve any descent velocity, as demonstrated by space marine droppods and real-life ballistic missiles, particularly hypersonic ones.
Something being ballistic means it isn't powered after its initial launch.
 
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Terminal velocity is by definition the speed of freefall. If you employ engines, you can achieve any descent velocity, as demonstrated by space marine droppods and real-life ballistic missiles, particularly hypersonic ones.
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Something being ballistic means it isn't powered after its initial launch.
Nah, It generally means that the flight trajectory is a ballistic arc. A bullet is technically a ballistic missile and naturally isn't powered past the barrel, but most actual(?) missiles have thrust far past the takeoff stage.

That's usually in (at least contemporarily) comparison to cruise missiles, which, well, cruise.
 
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Terminal velocity is by definition the speed of freefall. If you employ engines, you can achieve any descent velocity, as demonstrated by space marine droppods and real-life ballistic missiles, particularly hypersonic ones.
Just to be that ackchyually -guy, almost all ballistic missiles have hit hypersonic speeds since the gradpa V2 missile. It's the maneuvering within atmosphere at speeds that's hard for a cruise missile, specifically. And yeah, the whole "hypersonic missile" is largely a fluffy marketing term every country defines as what happens to be most convenient at the time.
 

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