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Each Iron Dome battery consists of three to four launchers that can each carry up to 20 Tamir interceptor missiles.
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Melissa Gaffney, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2024
Such a job would normally fall to sappers, but Perun had at his disposal an electric land drone with all-terrain tires and a rocket launcher, as well as an F.P.V. controller and goggles.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The report found that the LAPD fired the 40-millimeter projectiles at least 133 times in 2023, including five incidents in which officers used both launchers and firearms resulted in fatalities.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
In one scenario, a one-minute barrage on a 2.4-square-kilometer area of the capital Seoul using just 54 multiple rocket launchers, predicted more than 10,000 casualties.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
With the assistance of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand, the coalition struck underground weapon storage facilities, missile storage facilities, unmanned anti-aircraft systems, air defense systems, command centers and helicopters and missile launchers.
—Forbes International, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
Mexican officials later found parts used to make grenade launchers in a house Pierson had shared with Garcia.
—The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
One of the strikes was against a mobile missile launcher and the other was against an unmanned aerial system, the sources said, noting they were conducted between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sanaa time.
—NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Israel also claims to have destroyed 700 rocket launchers, and as a consequence, rocket attacks on Israel have dramatically decreased, although Hamas continues to be able to launch rockets.
—Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
Melissa Gaffney, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2024
Such a job would normally fall to sappers, but Perun had at his disposal an electric land drone with all-terrain tires and a rocket launcher, as well as an F.P.V. controller and goggles.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The report found that the LAPD fired the 40-millimeter projectiles at least 133 times in 2023, including five incidents in which officers used both launchers and firearms resulted in fatalities.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
In one scenario, a one-minute barrage on a 2.4-square-kilometer area of the capital Seoul using just 54 multiple rocket launchers, predicted more than 10,000 casualties.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
With the assistance of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand, the coalition struck underground weapon storage facilities, missile storage facilities, unmanned anti-aircraft systems, air defense systems, command centers and helicopters and missile launchers.
—Forbes International, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
Mexican officials later found parts used to make grenade launchers in a house Pierson had shared with Garcia.
—The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
One of the strikes was against a mobile missile launcher and the other was against an unmanned aerial system, the sources said, noting they were conducted between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sanaa time.
—NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Israel also claims to have destroyed 700 rocket launchers, and as a consequence, rocket attacks on Israel have dramatically decreased, although Hamas continues to be able to launch rockets.
—Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
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“Launcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/launcher. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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