Cruise missile

Quality:

Cruise missile - unmanned guided missile with atmospheric engine and a combat charge. Article “Cruise missile” in English Wikipedia has 88.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 106 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Cruise missile” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia (9867^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cruise missile”, its content was written by 614 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2032 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1927 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12311 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #301 in August 2001
• Global: #342 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2658 in March 2022
• Global: #899 in March 2022

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Крилата ракета		90.9426
2	English (en) Cruise missile		88.5635
3	Korean (ko) 순항 미사일		74.4466
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Krstareća raketa		68.8667
5	Spanish (es) Misil de crucero		66.6377
6	Chinese (zh) 巡航导弹		53.4755
7	Serbian (sr) Крстарећа ракета		51.5927
8	German (de) Marschflugkörper		45.3928
9	Bulgarian (bg) Крилата ракета		44.7801
10	Italian (it) Missile da crociera		42.5749

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cruise missile		7 436 423
2	German (de) Marschflugkörper		1 977 788
3	Japanese (ja) 巡航ミサイル		1 800 699
4	Russian (ru) Крылатая ракета		1 753 194
5	Persian (fa) موشک کروز		758 540
6	Chinese (zh) 巡航导弹		631 267
7	French (fr) Missile de croisière		531 107
8	Spanish (es) Misil de crucero		515 317
9	Italian (it) Missile da crociera		505 234
10	Hebrew (he) טיל שיוט		320 212

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cruise missile		19 445
2	German (de) Marschflugkörper		5 892
3	Russian (ru) Крылатая ракета		5 150
4	Persian (fa) موشک کروز		4 815
5	Japanese (ja) 巡航ミサイル		4 385
6	Chinese (zh) 巡航导弹		1 437
7	French (fr) Missile de croisière		1 257
8	Ukrainian (uk) Крилата ракета		1 215
9	Italian (it) Missile da crociera		1 017
10	Polish (pl) Pocisk manewrujący		753

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cruise missile		614
2	German (de) Marschflugkörper		207
3	Japanese (ja) 巡航ミサイル		109
4	Russian (ru) Крылатая ракета		109
5	Italian (it) Missile da crociera		101
6	Chinese (zh) 巡航导弹		75
7	French (fr) Missile de croisière		74
8	Dutch (nl) Kruisvluchtwapen		72
9	Spanish (es) Misil de crucero		60
10	Hebrew (he) טיל שיוט		52

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cruise missile		8
2	Japanese (ja) 巡航ミサイル		3
3	Catalan (ca) Míssil de creuer		1
4	Serbian (sr) Крстарећа ракета		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Tên lửa hành trình		1
6	Arabic (ar) صاروخ جوال		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qanadlı raket		0
8	Belarusian (be) Крылатая ракета		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Крилата ракета		0
10	Czech (cs) Střela s plochou dráhou letu		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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