I’m trying to find a way to refute this, but I cannot.

It doesn’t need to be fully watertight. The rate of water passing into the dry area only needs to be lower than the rate you can pump it out.

The article does talk about NASAMS, which is exactly what you describe. Its worth noting that a lot of the range is consumed accelerating the missile from stationary, gaining altitude, and flying through dense air. So, their range is much shorter than the same weapon when it is air launched.

Self esteem vs. Self awareness

I’ve just come from Sync, and this is the feature I miss most