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...into the car. Another heavily armed Mujahedin squad blasted a corridor through the government forces to provide an escape route for the auto. Khiabani, though wounded, managed to drive off, but an Islamic Guard scored a direct hit on the Peugeot with a Soviet-made RPG-7 antitank rocket launcher. All of the Mujahedin, including the bodyguards and the two women, died. Rajavi's son survived...
Less safe but more fun, the ever-popular Rapid Fire Saucer Launcher this year sports a new label--"When in use do not direct towards user's face or any other person's face...
...through the strange netherworld of the arms trade for this week's cover story, they reflected on their own surrealist experiences - sometimes comical, other times ominous - of encountering weapons both familiar and fantastic, in places both ordinary and exotic. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs recalled watching a multiple rocket launcher known as a "Stalin organ" being unloaded from a Soviet ship at Luanda harbor in 1975 during the civil war in Angola. To his surprise, the Angolans did not seem alarmed by the arrival of such heavy firepower. "Organs go in churches," said one. "Churches belong to God. He will...
...plastic-hulled minesweepers, troop-carrying Hovercraft and even a 670-ft., 14,000-ton Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will train troops and commanders, plan communications systems and even help manage bases...
...those times when combat squads "have to fight violently at very short distances." The brief entries tend to a breathless specificity. A smoke bomb lets a tank "escape temporarily from the adversary's sight and prevent the latter from adjusting his fire"; a 105-mm antitank rocket launcher is "designed for use by either a right-or a left-handed soldier." The French grant far more space to the nitty-gritty of war: pistols, plastic explosives and grenades (including one that was "designed to dazzle several antagonists...