school me, rocket vs missile - difference?

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In the military sense a rocket is projectile that may carry a pay load and has some form of thrust engine but does not have any navigation or ability to change it's path inflight, the difference is that a missile can change it's flight path though some type of navigation equipment (radar, gps, laser guidance...etc).

The terminology changes if you want to talk about engineering.

Typically rocket launchers are going to aim the rocket and trigger the engine. Some missile launchers will have guidance equipment (typically shoulder fired are like this) some have a remote guidance system (more typical of other platforms).

Thank you, now it makes sense... More or less..