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shell , missile acceleration rate

why artillery shells and bullet can accelerate so much faster than missile? they dont really have much more fuel , powder

Sprint missile have much higher acceleration rate compared to other SAM today , at 100 G
http://www.nuclearabms.info/Squirt.jpg

HIBEX missile have the highest acceleration rate of all missiles ever at 400 G
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Hibex.jpg

ICBM missiles and spacecraft can accelerate at 3G
http://tonnel-ufo.ru/foto/images_stati/MBR_Stilet.jpg

whereas
artillery shell can accelerate at 15 500 G
http://i46.tinypic.com/2j122jq.jpg

9 × 19 Parabellum handgun bullet can accelerate at 190,000 G
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/9X23_and_9X21_and_9X19.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28acceleration%29

bullet and shell are not anymore aerodynamic than missiles so what is the reason ?
also Pilobolus fungi can accelerate spores at 20,000 Gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKJAojmB1Y

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