Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
The Longbow isn’t a missile. It’s a variant of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, which uses Hellfire missiles.
I can assure you the Longbow Hellfire is a missile.

It’s a safe assumption that Webley’s final generation of springers were named after missiles, even if the Sting Ray is technically a torpedo, and the other spellings aren’t exactly the same.

Cheers
Greg