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ERYX is a short-range portable SACLOS-based wire-guided anti-tank missile (ATGM) produced by European company MBDA. It is used by several countries, including the Canadian Army, French, and Norwegian armies. The weapon can also be used against bunkers and pillboxes. It also has some capability in the anti aircraft role to bring down low flying helicopters, due to its wire guided system. An agreement was reached in 1989 between the French and Canadian governments to co-produce the ERYX missile system. It entered service in 1994.
Eryx may refer to:
- Eryx (Sicily), an ancient city in Sicily, Italy, as well as the mountain upon which it stood, located at modern Erice
- Eryx, a mythological king of the Sicilian city of Eryx, and boxer killed by Heracles
- ERYX, an anti-tank missile
- Eryx (genus), a genus of snake
- " In the Walls of Eryx", a short story by H. P. Lovecraft & K. J. Sterling
Eryx ( Greek: ), was an ancient city and a mountain in the west of Sicily, about 10 km from Drepana (modern Trapani), and 3 km from the sea-coast. It was located at the site of modern Erice.
Usage examples of "eryx".
Augustus ever really looked up to me before he learned that the assessment on Eryx Keep had been waived because he was my relative.
Quickly would they have robbed him of his return then and there, but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height.
Mantis team procured from the Eryx Cluster match, according to preliminary analysis, all the capabilities of imperium-X.
And at that time every footloose wanderer and entrepreneur in the Galaxy will start for the Eryx Region to make his fortune.
I instructed my Mantis team to take the most direct way back from the Eryx regions toward Prime World.
Any single mining company that attempts to exploit Eryx on its own is heading for bankruptcy.
Many factorial families had their own records of the Collapse, and the journals of the Eryx County Greggs were particularly detailed.
And perhaps the angels would come down in all their glory and carry Stephen Gregg to Eryx without need for a ship at all.
Greggs of Eryx, were mostly fair, but he was as big as his nephew and had been both strong and active till back problems slowed him down.
His family had a small hold in the Maxwell Range, not dissimilar to Eryx where Stephen had been born.
He handed Stephen a square-faced bottle of Eryx slash and the pitcher of orange juice from the refrigerator beneath the bar.
On holidays I make day-trips to Eryx so the kids can climb on their Uncle Stephen.
Seriphean garb from Astyages, Eryx, and the rest -- and from a nearer door, a somewhat larger number of the palace guard, led by a rodent-faced young man and followed by grim-visaged Cassiopeia.
Trapani, with its high striated cliffs, and the great grey castle, centuries old, peered down from the summit of Monte San Giuliano, where it sat four-square in the village of Eryx almost surrounded by pine forests.
Appointment of Hamilcar Barca to the Carthaginian command 75 He intrenches himself on Mount Hercte, near Panormus 75 He removes to Mount Eryx 75 241.