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If you have the money for that, you either build a cruise missile that flies very close to the terrain, or an ICBM that rushes down from space at a speed that makes if very hard to intercept.

If you build your rockets from water pipes, nitrate fertilizer, sugar, and a blob of high explosive, as most Palestinian rockets are [1], you don't invest into a flight control system at all, only into the aiming system and the efficiency of mass production and mass launch.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket#Design




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