Air Force cruise missiles, which can carry much larger warheads, were similarly modified before the war.
Syria has given Hezbollah 220-millimeter and 302-millimeter missiles, both equipped with large, anti-personnel warheads.
The resulting new missile appears as an enlarged version of the C-701, with larger warhead.
Further developments of this concept, some with much larger warheads, led to the early anti-ballistic missiles.
Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high accuracy.
It would carry a larger warhead over a greater range with more accuracy and could be fired more quickly.
The problem is that precision weapons do not carry large warheads and cannot produce spectacular damage.
That gives us twenty-one HEs, which isn't bad because we use those with the larger warhead.
Additionally, the relatively low precision of this guidance method is less of an issue for large nuclear warheads.
It's got a large explosive warhead that they can detach and fix to the target ship.