Sentence examples for fire rocket from inspiring English sources
Since then, about 70percentt of American casualties in Afghanistan have occurred under hostile conditions, like small-arms fire, rocket attacks and, increasingly, improvised mines and bombs.
It turns out that the only books to be found in any of the three large buildings in the walled compound are manuals — how to fire rocket launchers and wire-guided missiles, among others.
It's just that these employees face mortar fire, rocket attacks, improvised explosive devices, and other risks of war — and that they are working, albeit through intermediaries, for the United States government.
Deaths, maiming, and third-degree burns are commonplace news items, and almost every family shares the memory of a shattered window pane or a home fire caused by a wayward fire rocket.
The military statement said a grenade hit a Bradley Fighting Vehicle while on patrol, and that militia fighters also tried to fire rocket propelled grenades at soldiers, who returned fire, killing two of the insurgents.
I get to come out here in the shop, turn wrenches and fire rocket engines".
Within an hour, forty-five Taliban fighters inside the village and on the surrounding ridge ambushed the Americans with mortar fire, rocket-propelled grenades, and automatic weapons.
Meanwhile, security conditions around the prison were worsening, with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar fire coming into the compound almost every night.
But the streets still bustled, and the militias did not fire rocket-propelled grenades or detonate roadside bombs, as they often have.
Local residents reported that the militants stormed the town, seizing houses in order to fire rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons from their rooftops while terrified residents sheltered inside.
The United States military also reported that 15 insurgents had been killed by American and Iraqi forces in an hourlong battle north of Baghdad that involved small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and artillery fire.
