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  • Thumbnail for Multiple rocket launcher
    fixed to a single platform, and shoots its rocket ordnance in a fashion similar to a volley gun. Rockets are self-propelled in flight and have different...
    14 KB (1,747 words) - 16:28, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II
    capability to launch rockets, it was widely but misleadingly known as the "Vickers-Crayford rocket gun." Vickers designed the gun early in World War I...
    10 KB (1,077 words) - 20:29, 29 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rocket artillery
    Rocket artillery is artillery that uses rockets as the projectile. The use of rocket artillery dates back to medieval China where devices such as fire...
    23 KB (3,058 words) - 00:03, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket-propelled grenade
    A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired rocket weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by...
    44 KB (5,243 words) - 23:00, 6 July 2024
  • gun- or cannon-like structure. Space guns could thus potentially provide a method of non-rocket spacelaunch. It has been conjectured that space guns could...
    14 KB (1,743 words) - 03:27, 15 June 2024
  • Rocket artillery is a type of artillery equipped with rocket launchers instead of conventional guns or mortars. Note that the "Calibre" of rocket projectiles...
    10 KB (83 words) - 00:19, 4 August 2024
  • Breech-Loading Vickers Q.F. Gun, Mk II ("Vickers-Crayford rocket gun") (UK) Vickers machine gun (UK) Vickers K machine gun (UK) Vickers S (UK) Volkov-Yartsev...
    12 KB (1,525 words) - 23:50, 15 July 2024
  • 5 15 cm AA Gun (project) Type 10 120 mm AA Gun Type 14 10 cm AA Gun Type 99 88 mm AA Gun 25 mm Rocket Gun Launcher 80 mm Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher 100 mm...
    2 KB (287 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2024
  • rocket launcher EDESA Yarará 70 mm multiple rocket launcher Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short World War II pack howitzer based on British 25 pounder gun-howitzer...
    63 KB (7,600 words) - 00:20, 4 August 2024
  • by tanks using tank guns, infantry fighting vehicles using autocannons, other combat vehicles, mortars, recoilless rifles, rocket-propelled grenades,...
    13 KB (1,762 words) - 21:17, 24 December 2023
  • The following is a list of rocket launchers Note, rocket launchers are different from recoilless rifles, recoilless guns, grenade launchers or anti-tank...
    4 KB (66 words) - 05:32, 7 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rocket-assisted projectile
    non-assisted ballistic shell, which is propelled only by the gun's exploding charge. Some forms of rocket-assisted projectiles can be outfitted with a laser guide...
    4 KB (433 words) - 20:04, 2 August 2024
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    Project HARP (category Space guns)
    rely on rockets, HARP instead used very large guns to fire projectiles into the atmosphere at extremely high speeds. A 16-inch (41 cm) HARP gun operated...
    43 KB (5,168 words) - 14:23, 3 August 2024
  • Bottle Rocket is a 1996 American crime comedy film directed by Wes Anderson in his feature film directorial debut. The film is written by Anderson and...
    15 KB (1,560 words) - 23:00, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket (weapon)
    more mobile than guns or howitzers, most of which must be emplaced. Guns tend to have better accuracy, consistency, and range, while rocket artillery is light...
    7 KB (830 words) - 14:14, 29 March 2024
  • "Rocket Queen" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). The song is notable...
    11 KB (1,375 words) - 23:57, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket launcher
    launch rockets include the multiple rocket launcher, a type of unguided rocket artillery system. Launch pad List of gun-launched missiles List of rocket launchers...
    10 KB (1,092 words) - 18:40, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Artillery battery
    a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles...
    22 KB (2,738 words) - 00:28, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gyrojet
    Although Roddenberry loved the Gyrojet, he wanted a "ray gun" and not a pistol that merely shot a rocket projectile, no matter how advanced for the twentieth...
    18 KB (2,093 words) - 00:42, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bazooka
    The Bazooka (/bəˈzuːkə/) is a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely deployed by the United States Army, especially during World...
    69 KB (8,292 words) - 14:53, 4 July 2024
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