Sentence examples for a pair of rockets from inspiring English sources

It began, the statement said, with a pair of rockets fired toward the barracks from the desert outside the city.

Last month, insurgents fired a pair of rockets that damaged the parked C-17 transport plane used by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was visiting Afghanistan.

During a visit to Afghanistan by the general in August, insurgents hiding outside the heavily fortified Bagram Air Base fired a pair of rockets that damaged his plane and slightly wounded two service members.

A pair of rockets, part of an exhibition trumpeting the nation's young space program, were left standing in Flushing Meadows after the 1964 World's Fair closed, and I still see them in the distance whenever I drive past on Grand Central Parkway.

- A pair of rockets fired from southern Egypt hit an Israeli resort that sits on the Red Sea.

The landing was covered by the destroyers Arunta, Bush, Stockton and ; a pair of rocket-firing LCVPs and the LCM (flak), which fired 168 4.5 inches rockets; the guns of the 61st Field Artillery Battalion on Los Negros; and six Kittyhawks of No. 76 Squadron dropped 500 pound bombs.

Four RS-25 rocket engines will be joined with a pair of solid rocket boosters to create the configuration for the first SLS flights.

With the Endeavour back on the ground, engineers planned to haul the shuttle Discovery from its hangar to the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building on Tuesday for attachment to an external tank and a pair of solid-fuel rocket boosters.

It's now working on a pair of its own rocket-powered launch vehicles, and is in the early phases of creating a reusable, crew-capable space plane.

The Castrol Rocket, with a pair of outrageously powerful Triumph Rocket III engines fitted to a motorcycle cloaked in streamlined Kevlar-carbon bodywork, might just be able to grab that title.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, expressing outrage over a pair of long-range Palestinian rockets that whizzed toward Tel Aviv and set off the first air-raid warning in the Israeli metropolis since it was threatened by Iraqi Scuds in the Persian Gulf war of 1991, said, "There will be a price for that escalation that the other side will have to pay".