Word: anti-tank
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...their 8,000 dependents last week, Arab extremists were threatening harm to their women and children. Those threats so far were just that, but elsewhere a total of 20 Arabs was killed during the week, seven of them children whose school bus blew up when it rolled over an anti-tank mine planted in the road. Several British soldiers were among nearly 100 persons who have been killed so far this year in Aden...
...array of weaponry that would have enabled the original Minutemen of 1775 to rout the British at Lexington and conquer England as well. The trove included 115 rifles, five mortars, nine machine guns, 26 pistols, brass-knuckled trench knives, machetes, hunting knives, throwing knives, cleavers, two bazookas, three anti-tank grenade launchers, 50 camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, 30 walkie-talkies, ten cans of black powder, crossbows, and more than a million rounds of ammunition-plus arrows for the crossbows...
...phenomenally accurate SS-11 anti-tank rocket, developed and manufactured in France, with a range of more than two miles. The rocket is fired from a portable launcher, is guided to its target through a long wire it trails behind. Three times the SS-11 was fired at the Benning show, and three times it scored a direct hit on a tank more than a mile away. At the third hit, Ike pushed his hat back, grinned and exclaimed: "Holy...
...worst dreams we did not suspect that Israel-in the 20th year since the start of Hitler's slaughter of the Jewish people-would send a stream of weapons to rearm the German army," cried a Tel Aviv newspaper. Israel had contracted to sell 250,000 anti-tank grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal...
...meet this, or any other Israeli challenge, Nasser has a mixed assortment of arms, including 32 obsolescent Centurion tanks, eleven Meteor and 26 Vampire jets and some 150 anti-tank guns, given to him by the British. But the British, who have no confidence in Nasser's long-range intentions, have also provided the Israelis with similar heavy weapons...