Sentence examples for launchers- from inspiring English sources

The attackers used grenade launchers and automatic weapons to fire at the Ukrainian column, hitting an armoured personnel carrier.

The three-hour display of some of the men and materiel of Pakistan's lavishly resourced military included representatives of all three services, fly pasts by screeching fighter jets and processions of missile launchers and tanks.

Brand new machine guns, rocket launchers and Kalashnikovs were lined neatly against the wall on one side.

"Those Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, they are using Russian rocket launchers, Russian tanks, Russian artillery, you can't buy this equipment on eBay, it hasn't come from somewhere else, it's come from Russia and we know that," he said.

Russian media reports have suggested the rebels now have TOS-1 tank-mounted rocket launchers, which can shoot two dozen fuel bombs in quick succession.

It supplied weaponry, including multiple-rocket launchers, fighter aircraft and guided-missile attack craft.Western and Indian analysts worry that China sees Myanmar as part of its so-called "string of pearls" policy of building naval and intelligence bases around the Indian Ocean.

No crucial Hizbullah leaders were killed and almost none of their mobile rocket-launchers were destroyed.

Hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition have been handed in, along with heavy machineguns and grenade-launchers.

The peshmergas say that the Iranians have recently given the group truck-mounted Katyusha rocket-launchers, and helped them target their artillery from positions inside Iran.Elsewhere Iran has been helping America in its fight with al-Qaeda.

Troops and police have fought pitched battles against gangsters armed with rocket-launchers, grenades, machineguns and armour-piercing sniper rifles, such as the Barrett 50.

Between 1995 and 1997, the Department of Defence gave police departments 1.2m pieces of military hardware, including 73 grenade-launchers and 112 armoured personnel carriers.