You're too funny Jax. According to your strict definition, a bullet is
not ballistic either since it's guided by the gun barrel for the initial
portion of it's flight and travels in a straight line, not a ballistic
flight path, for that portion of it's journey to the target.

ballistic

\Bal*lis"tic\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling
stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.


ballistic

adj : relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their
own momentum and the force of gravity; "ballistic missile"