Method for transmitting data between a base station and a missile, which is intended to receive the data and is part of a group of missiles (11, 12, 13) in flight towards a target area and to which there is no line-of-sight connection from the base station, comprising the steps of: a) transmitting the data from the base station to a first missile, to which there is a line-of-sight connection from the base station, in the group, and b) transmitting the data from this first missile to the missile intended to receive the data, wherein the data sent from the base station to the missiles (11, 12, 13) are control data for a plurality of missiles (11, 12, 13) in the group, and wherein each missile (13, 12) acting as a relay station in the group of missiles (11, 12, 13) passes on only the control data not intended for it to the next missile (12, 11), wherein the transmission of the data from the first missile to the missile intended to receive the data takes place via at least one further missile in the group, wherein the data transmission between the base station and the missile intended to receive the data is bidirectional, the data transmission from the missile intended to receive the data back to the base station taking place in reverse via the at least one further missile and the first missile, and wherein the data sent to the base station, which are detected by an image capture device and/or a sensor of the missiles (11, 12, 13), include image data and/or sensor data from a plurality of missiles (11, 12, 13), each missile (12, 13) appending the image data and/or sensor data which it records to the image data and/or sensor data which it receives and passing them on together therewith to the next missile or to the base station as applicable; and wherein the further missile receives the data both on a first transmission path, from the first missile or from a further, preceding missile, and on a second transmission path, directly from the base station, wherein a signal processing device in the further missile combines the data received on the two transmission paths in such a way that diversity gains are achieved, and wherein only the combined data are passed on to the next missile, and/or wherein the base station receives the return-transmitted data both on a first transmission path from the first missile and on a second transmission path from the further, preceding missile, wherein a signal processing device in the base station combines the data received on the two transmission paths in such a way that diversity gains are achieved, and wherein only the combined data are processed further in the base station. a) transmitting the data from the base station to a first missile, to which there is a line-of-sight connection from the base station, in the group, and b) transmitting the data from this first missile to the missile intended to receive the data, wherein the data sent from the base station to the missiles (11, 12, 13) are control data for a plurality of missiles (11, 12, 13) in the group, and wherein each missile (13, 12) acting as a relay station in the group of missiles (11, 12, 13) passes on only the control data not intended for it to the next missile (12, 11), wherein the transmission of the data from the first missile to the missile intended to receive the data takes place via at least one further missile in the group, wherein the data transmission between the base station and the missile intended to receive the data is bidirectional, the data transmission from the missile intended to receive the data back to the base station taking place in reverse via the at least one further missile and the first missile, and wherein the data sent to the base station, which are detected by an image capture device and/or a sensor of the missiles (11, 12, 13), include image data and/or sensor data from a plurality of missiles (11, 12, 13), each missile (12, 13) appending the image data and/or sensor data which it records to the image data and/or sensor data which it receives and passing them on together therewith to the next missile or to the base station as applicable; and wherein the further missile receives the data both on a first transmission path, from the first missile or from a further, preceding missile, and on a second transmission path, directly from the base station, wherein a signal processing device in the further missile combines the data received on the two transmission paths in such a way that diversity gains are achieved, and wherein only the combined data are passed on to the next missile, and/or wherein the base station receives the return-transmitted data both on a first transmission path from the first missile and on a second transmission path from the further, preceding missile, wherein a signal processing device in the base station combines the data received on the two transmission paths in such a way that diversity gains are achieved, and wherein only the combined data are processed further in the base station.