Word: launcher
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...twelve to 14 hours a day, six days a week, the sergeants drill their charges on the use of such weapons as the M-16 rifle and the M-79 grenade launcher, and teach them how to survive on the battlefield. The recruits "attack" while machine guns are fired over their heads, are ambushed by a tear-gas attack and end up marching 15 miles and bivouacking in the field for a week. The men have to pass a final exam in combat skills. Anyone who flunks twice has to take the entire seven-week course over again...
...worth noting that the agreed launcher level is lower than that of the U.S. some ten years ago. If the Vladivostok guidelines are converted into a definitive ten-year agreement, it should provide a good measure of certainty as to the maximum number of launchers in the Soviet strategic forces over the next ten years. That would be invaluable information for U.S. forceplanning during this period. Concerns about growing vulnerability of ICBMS are not laid to rest by this agreement, but one can now estimate this danger with greater precision-and, if necessary, make changes in U.S. forces...
...limit of about 2,400 on the total number of missile launchers that each nation may deploy. That includes land-based and submarine-fired missiles; in addition, each long-range bomber would count as a single launcher, even though each plane can release more than one bomb. In a major concession, the Soviets dropped their demand that tactical nuclear weapons (both airborne and land-based) deployed with NATO forces in Europe be counted as launchers...
American sources believe that the Russian tragedy may have been caused by an accidental ignition of fuel used in a non-nuclear warhead; they speculate that it may have caught fire while the rocket was still on the ship's missile launcher during a test firing. Although the Raskin-class destroyers were a vital part of the Soviet Mediterranean fleet in the mid-1960s, they have gradually been replaced by newer ships because they have no facilities for helicopters and their missiles can be used only against aircraft. Western experts suspect that the warships often suffered from serious engine...
...vigilantes at the station door. "Go home," one of the policemen said. "We will handle this from now on." There was a brief protest, and some of the young rebels menacingly fingered their shotguns and pistols. Finally, one of the policemen put down his baton and wrenched a rocket launcher from one man and a light machine gun from another. "Now clear off," he told the Dragons. "You've had your fun." Sheepishly, they packed up their blankets and weapons and walked...