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Ballistic missile, a Rare card
A ballistic missile is a type of missile that follows a ballistic trajectory and is powered only during a relatively brief initial period, most of the flight is unpowered.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 141 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Ballistic missile quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ballistic missile card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The largest ICBMs are capable of full ______ flight.
Answer
orbital. The largest ICBMs are capable of full orbital flight. From the Ballistic missile article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Casino. Casino 530,000 · Ballistic missile 340,000 · List of international presidential trips made by Mohamed Muizzu 1,500 · Lucie Odier 420 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Short-range ballistic missiles typically stay within the Earth's atmosphere, while most larger missiles travel outside the atmosphere.
- The type of ballistic missile with the greatest range is an intercontinental ballistic missile.
- The largest ICBMs are capable of full orbital flight.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ballistic missile article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Ballistic missile (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Fastfission, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
