cruise missile vs aircraft

cruise missile and aircraft both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cruise missile	Yes	No	No	No
aircraft	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, aircraft is a hypernym of cruise missile; that is, aircraft is a word with a broader meaning than cruise missile:

Other hypernyms of cruise missile include bomb.

cruise missile (noun)	aircraft (noun)
an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb	a vehicle that can fly