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Sumo
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ah. thanks!
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The air intake isn't visible at that angle
Your pic is an entirely different model*, but in general your right that it can be hard to see the intake because it is small to suit the very low thrust required and not always where you expect it to be if you're used to looking at larger aircraft.
*The extendable scoop inlet and cruciform tail mark it out as an old Tomahawk, the three surface tail and conformal intake seem to have arrived with Block IV
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This one it's at the front, looks like a mouth.
moocher
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In an article about Syria: "A cruise missile is essentially a flying jet engine with a 1,000 lbs (454 kg) bomb attached to it."
Is this right? I thought they were more like a rocket. Dont jet engines (like you have in a plane) need an air intake at the front?
tldr: what are jet engines?