It is known that the energy flux of a transient electromagnetic wave can decrease with distance more slowly than the usual inverse‐square law. Such cases are referred to as electromagnetic missiles. The rate of decrease depends on the frequency spectrum of the exciting current. For a class of excitations where the frequency spectrum behaves as ‖&ohgr;‖−1/2−&egr;, the rate of decrease has been stated to bez−2&egr;for 0≤&egr;≤1, implying that &egr; must be less than 1 in order for the decrease to be slower thanz−2. It is shown that, in fact, the case &egr;=1 results in a dependence ofz−2 ln z, i.e., an electromagnetic missile—albeit a weaker one than those previously discussed.