It came down along a ballistic arc, and slowed to a gentle touchdown on the naked rock of the altiplano.

The warhead then travels in a ballistic arc until it impacts the target.

Meta took the ship into the stratosphere, in a high ballistic arc that ended at the islands.

During vehicle breakup, it detached in one piece and slowly tumbled into a ballistic arc.

Hassan slid off of Nohar's hand and followed a near-perfect ballistic arc to the ground.

A six-inch shell in its ballistic arc didn't care if the Frisbee was invisible or not.

The spent rocket then fell back in a ballistic arc, the payload returning to Earth via parachute.

It therefore followed a typical ballistic arc rather than "falling straight down."

In modern parlance, these weapons are breech-loaded and built primarily for long range fire with a low or almost flat ballistic arc.

A variation is the howitzer or gun-howitzer designed to offer the ability to fire both low or high-angle ballistic arcs.