Word: launcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT I agreement was signed May 26, 1972, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, felt that there was "relative strategic [nuclear] parity" between the two countries. By 1975 half of the U.S. land-based missiles would be MIRVS (multiple independent re-entry vehicles): each launcher tipped with a package of three independently targeted warheads that can hit widely separated, preplotted targets. Some Soviet missiles in operation then also had multiple warheads, but they were not independently targeted. When fired, they sprayed from the missile launcher along a straight line like pellets from a shotgun...
...ministers arrived on a morale-building mission. They wandered among Third Army soldiers at random, embracing and kissing them and introducing themselves ("I am Ahmed Hilal, Minister of Petroleum Affairs"). The troops swarmed around them, eager to tell stories. One soldier with an RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) antitank missile launcher slung over his shoulder almost wept when he met Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority...
...Watching the annual military parade in Red square last week, Western observers spotted two new weapons. One was an intercontinental ballistic missile that they immediately dubbed "Rudolph" because of red paint on the nose of the warhead. The other was a small tank, armed with a rocket launcher, which can be airlifted and dropped with airborne troops...
...half-forgotten sound of incoming Katyusha rockets. One shell hit a hospital, killing an elderly woman patient. Two more damaged an elementary school closed for vacation. A fourth killed a five-year-old girl sitting on a porch. Next morning a spotter plane located the Russian-made rocket launcher 41 miles away near the Arab village of Deir Ballut...
...these people.' I said 'We are. We're guarding them.' Calley said, 'No, kill them.' He said to come around to this side, get on line and fire into them. I told him I would guard a tree line, with my grenade launcher, while they fired...