What is "launchers"

Usage examples of "launchers".

We might not have enough forces to aggressively seek out and suppress Iraqi artillery and multiple-rocket launchers that Iraq would use to fire chemical and possibly biological weapons at our troops.

Finally, in February, the American press learned that the CIA had discovered five sites in western Iraq where Baghdad had built fixed Scud launchers aimed at Israel.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.

Scud launchers in western and southern Iraq, even using large numbers of aircraft and special forces teams.

American artillery pieces, and the terrible firepower of our own multiple-rocket launchers, most Iraqi artillery batteries would be lucky to get off more than a few rounds before they were silenced by American guns.

Got to have outposts out there to keep people with rocket launchers from doing that to you.

Shocked Wardens roused in the perimeter bunkers and streams of tracer began to hose the night, but the HVM launchers had retargeted and fresh blasts of fury killed the guns.

SBMHAWKs danced madly among the fireballs where less fortunate pods had destroyed one another, whipped into squirming evasion of hostile fire while their launchers stabilized.

Every day we hesitate increases the chance of that dire event, and when it comes to pass, ladies and gentlemen, when those massive defense centers are able to return fire with thousands upon thousands of launchers, the cost of crushing them will be inconceivable.

His weapons might be less accurate, but he had far more launchers than they.

A screaming wave of Shellhead infantry rolled over Delta Company like a tsunami, rocket and grenade launchers flaming.

Especially when the multiple rocket launchers of the Archonal Guard Legion cut loose from their positions in the fields just to the south, ripple-firing on their tracked carriages, painting the clouds above with streaks of violet fire like a silk curtain across the sky.

Likewise another couple of well-emplaced units with grenade launchers which were playing havoc with the street-corner cowboys from Tucson.