An actual missile would be built completely differently.

Although he'd fired several practice Rockeyes before, they hadn't been the true heavyweights of an actual missile.

For instance, the narrow interpretation says a target cannot be an actual intercontinental ballistic missile.

A mere demonstration wouldn't require an actual missile.

On top of the marquee at the school is an actual missile.

Or what would have been a tail shot, if we had actual missiles.

Not even one photograph of an actual missile.

The reason, the officials said, was the "dwell time" it would take the radar to distinguish the actual missiles from the decoys.

While waiting for the actual missiles to hit, word came that the attack had been approved.

The projected missile is also so different to the actual missile that there would have been little in common between the two.