Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160121121228/@comment-25396609-20160128060118

That's current technical terminolgy, the origin of the word missile is the one I am referring to.

Missile: early 17th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘suitable for throwing (at a target)’): from Latin missile, neuter (used as a noun) of missilis, from miss- ‘sent,’ from the verb mittere.