Word: launcher
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Wearing a green field cap and military dog tags, 12-year-old Victor steadies a Soviet-made SAM-7 missile launcher on his tiny shoulder, squinting through the crosshairs at the children screaming dizzily on the nearby Tilt-a-Whirl ride. Even without the missile, the SAM-7 launcher is as tall as Victor and doesn't weight much less. But he's having too much fun to be burdened by the weapon's cumbersome dimensions...
...lock the bolt handles on their assault rifles with a nimble familiarity that seems to belie the innocence of their youthful looks. Despite the presence of several soldiers, the atmosphere in the tent is considerably laid back - even when one of the more rambunctious boys shoves a grenade launcher into the back of an unsuspecting soldier and yells "bang...
...tries to legitimize Clyde’s motivation by constantly referencing his family, their brief appearance on screen does not do enough to explain any of his actions. Other details of the movie are similarly disconnected. Why doesn’t anyone notice the military-grade rocket launcher Clyde has erected in the middle of a cemetery? Why does he strip naked right before the police break into his house to arrest him? The world may never know...
...European Space Agency's (ESA) twin telescopes, named Herschel and Planck, are being carried on an Ariane 5 launcher to take up a vantage point 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. From there, they will gaze across the farthest corners of the cosmos to try to learn about the physics and chemistry behind the Big Bang. (See pictures of the Hubble telescope's achievements...
Even Harvard’s most directionally-challenged may never get lost in the Square again. Harvard Student Agencies recently launcher Rover, a free iTunes application that provides users with the locations of hundreds of restaurants and stores in the Cambridge-Boston area. Rover also gives users live access to numerous deals and discounts in the Square exclusive to Rover users. The application, available for use on the newest versions of the Apple iPhone and iTouch, uses the Unofficial Guide to Student Life at Harvard, a guidebook published by HSA, as its main source of information. The book has reviews...