Sentence examples for launcher from inspiring English sources

Abbott's office said the prime minister indicated he "was in possession of information suggesting that MH17 was destroyed by a missile from a launcher that had come out of Russia, was fired from inside eastern Ukraine and then returned to Russia".

Coming into the final the 6ft 4in rocket launcher had delivered twice as many aces as the next most potent server, but on leaving it the delivery had been blunted to a half-measure.

Outside Artemivsk, outgoing artillery was heard and a multiple rocket launcher seen firing off a volley towards Debaltseve.

Authorities detained three people and confiscated 36 semi-automatic weapons, two smaller arms, a grenade launcher that had been fired and a.50-caliber rifle.

Rubido, who did not take questions from the press, said the operation also lead to the arrest of three gunmen as well as the confiscation of 36 assault rifles and a grenade launcher.

"A rocket launcher from Boko Haram hit a house around the Bulumkutu area … and killed five people.

But its commander lay dead in the dirt beside him, the troops were fleeing and, from a mud building in front, the 26-year-old British officer was being raked by Taliban fire.His response, for which Lieutenant Illingworth received Britain's second-highest award for gallantry, was to grab the dead Afghan's grenade-launcher and fight back.

Cars, commercial vehicles and the odd missile-launcher have been rolling out of the gates of this "Gorky" plant ever since.

That was on display on May 1st in Jalisco, in Mexico, where a newish mob answered a government crackdown by shooting down a helicopter with a rocket-launcher, killing six soldiers, and setting up roadblocks across the state.

Ukraine's new seaborne commercial satellite-launcher had a promising first outing this month.

Thus the 18-year-old Texan soldier in Mosul who, confronted by jeering schoolchildren, shot canisters of buckshot at them from his grenade-launcher.