Consequently, they are vulnerable to rocket-propelled grenades, roadside bombs and small arms fire.
A report prepared by a defense consultant earlier this year for Representative H. James Saxton, a New Jersey Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said the Stryker was vulnerable to rocket-propelled grenades, an easy target for any hostile forces and too cramped for gear-laden soldiers.
With a complete Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, Israeli cities would be vulnerable to rockets and mortars.
An AC-130 gunship that could have provided protective fire for the Rangers was pulled from the scene because the low-flying, slow-moving planes are too vulnerable to rockets and missiles during the day.
It is, they say, potentially vulnerable to the rockets and truck bombs of Mr. Hussein's die-hards.
On Thursday, Kiryat Malachi, Rishon Lezion and Tel Aviv to the north all joined the circle of Israeli population centers vulnerable to the rockets being fired from Gaza, whose longer range threaten hundreds of thousands more Israelis.
Soldiers in particular are very vulnerable to their rockets being reflected back at their team, as reflected explosives mini-crit against their own team.
They are vulnerable to mortar and rocket attacks, and terror: reports of Shia death squads roaming the streets conjure up memories of another heavy-handed military "clearing operation" – in Tikrit in 2015, when many civilians fled their homes as Isis positions were encircled and pounded.
Marshes, date-palm orchards, and water-filled ditches held Bravo Company to a few roads, not much wider than their squat Humvees, which were vulnerable to attack by rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and "improvised explosive devices".
NATO forces in both Albania and Macedonia are vulnerable to Serbia's Orkan multiple rocket-launchers, and America's much-vaunted fleet of 24 Apache helicopters, deployed in Albania, suffered a second crash this week.Perhaps the darkest assessment of NATO's progress was offered by the outgoing chairman of the alliance's Military Committee, General Klaus Naumann, a German, on May 4th.
When he visited Israel as a candidate he saw firsthand how vulnerable Israeli villagers were to rocket attacks from Gaza.
