Word: antitank
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...hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank guns. It is cutting our country to pieces...
Today's Hell's Angels number more than 500 members in 32 chapters, and, according to the O.S.I.T., they control 75% of California's methamphetamine market. They have built up a highly sophisticated crime network, amassing tax shelters, high-priced lawyers and an arsenal of antitank rockets, Claymore mines and M-60 machine guns...
...arrested three fundamentalist Jews who reportedly confessed to involvement in an abortive attempt last January to blow up Jerusalem's two most important Islamic shrines, the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Days later, the police uncovered a major arms cache near Jerusalem, including grenades, antitank weapons and mines, some still in Israel Defense Forces casings. Said a Shin Bet official: "It is impossible to be sure that we have managed to put an end to Jewish terrorism, but we have moved some steps forward...
...often they are used by poorly trained troops. As an example of a first-rate Soviet product, American experts point to the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle. Simple, reliable and versatile, it is the favored weapon of guerrillas from Central America to Southeast Asia. The Soviet-built RPG-7 antitank rocket launcher is also easy to operate and has proved lethal in the fighting in Lebanon...
Then the 19 commandos appeared, wearing civilian clothes (with identifying red armbands) and carrying automatic weap ons, rockets and enough high explosives to demolish the building. Attacking simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence...