If women ran the Pentagon, would missiles be shaped differently?

[FunkyMonkee]

[LeatherDame]

No, The progression is:
Speer —-> arrow—-> missile.


They all are approximately the same general form- a long shaft with a weighted head (and vanes or fletching for stabilizing the end).


For missiles the head is the warhead and the shaft holds the fuel and the vanes adjust direction etc


It’s that shape because that’s the most efficient shape aerodynamically

[purplepoppy]

Of course. Radar is designed to look for long cylinder objects flying at speed. No ones looking for a slow moving flock of birds are they?

[LeatherDame]

I have bad news for you… that’s exactly what they’re doing as collisions with flocks of birds is a major cause of airplane crashes

[Massageman]

I'll pretend this is an actual question. No. Aeronautical physics is one thing. Sex xx≠xy is biological and is quite another.