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usefulcat
on Oct 3, 2022
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Cobra Maneuver
If you fire it backwards, when it first launches it will be traveling backwards relative to the airflow. So you would have to make a missile that can fly forwards or backwards. Probably not impossible but it must add some difficulty.
leeoniya
on Oct 3, 2022
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hmm, yeah that sounds challenging, but spacex does it when landing the first stage :)
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