rocket propelled grenades

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Noori said the gunbattle lasted several hours and that the Taliban used artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. It has been a particularly deadly week in Afghanistan. A suicide bombing by the Islamic State group targeted a voter registration ...

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters inspect a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher on the outskirts of Mosul, February 6, 2015. (Photo: Reuters). Kurdistan Canada Iraq Peshmerga. A+ A A-. ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Canada's government has still not decided whether it will send over $7 million in weaponry once destined for ...

... off the area, preventing anyone from approaching it, and later found that the man had died as a result of the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade. ... News Agency (NNA) said that the military expert, who examined the site, reported that the blast was due to the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade.

... off the area, preventing anyone from approaching it, and later found that the man had died as a result of the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade. ... News Agency (NNA) said that the military expert, who examined the site, reported that the blast was due to the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade.

I have a question for Mr. George Jenks concerning his letter “Register All Guns”, printed in the Daily Item on Sunday (April 22). Is it painful to be so short sighted? I would remind Mr. Jenks that in 1939 Nazi Germany registered all guns prior to confiscation. How did that turn out? The problem is not gun ...

Nearly four dozen firearms were seized, along with ammunition, homemade silencers, night vision goggles and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The search also yielded a cache of explosives that were disposed of in a controlled detonation by the Minneapolis Police Bomb Squad. Methamphetamine ...

KYIV — Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating a rocket-propelled-grenade attack on a building that houses the offices of two of Ukraine's top independent news outlets in central Kyiv as “hooliganism…. Read full article at the publisher's site: ...

KYIV -- Ukrainian authorities say they are investigating a rocket-propelled-grenade attack on a building that houses the offices of two of Ukraine's top independent news outlets in central Kyiv as "hooliganism." The attack on an entrance to the Kyivmiskbud building, located in Kyiv's Pechersk neighborhood ...

The 2019-2024 World Outlook For Shoulder Fired Anti-Tank And Anti-Aircraft Short Range Missiles And Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPG), This study covers the world outlook for Shoulder Fired Anti-Tank And Anti-Aircraft Short Range Missiles And Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPG) Market across more ...

All kinds of weapons would be allowed: muzzle-loaded rifles, semi-automatic assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft guns, cruise missiles and anti-tank guns with depleted uranium shells. Only ICBMs with nuclear explosives are forbidden as being in the domain of the gods. Some gun-control ...

“Unfortunately, Duckworth really doesn't have a leg to stand on in making this argument,” the article read ― a highly insulting attack on the senator, who lost both her legs fighting in Iraq when her helicopter was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. The senator, known for her sharp-witted Twitter responses ...

To support these claims, he fabricated stories about engaging in active combat, and about witnessing combat-related deaths of friends, and injuries from rocket propelled grenades. Joslin also submitted fake military certifications purporting to show that he received certain combat awards. Court officials say ...

Cody Joslin, 32, of Maui, told the U.S. Veterans Administration that he suffered post-traumatic stress and hearing loss from injuries he sustained while on multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle, from close-quarters knife fights with the enemy and from ...

The rocket-propelled grenade launchers also bore hallmarks of being manufactured in Iran, the group said. The group has also said drones used by Al Houthis to crash into Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia share “near-identical design and construction characteristics” of Iranian drones. The weapons ...

Over the decades, the development of the armour-piercing projectile, shoulder-fired rocket propelled grenades, anti-tank guided missiles and the attack helicopter; were all initially hailed as the death-knell of the main battle tank. Yet, all these panaceas were countered by improvements in the tank's mobility, ...

Military bomb experts have detonated an old rocket propelled grenade found at a car wash in Nakuru Town West. Resident Wycliffe Nyaoga said he noticed the device at the car wash in Kaptembwa estate while farming. "I had been digging a trench to plant cabbages when I saw it. I decided to pose and ...

The NRA states assault rifles are no longer enough to protect oneself in today's world. “You can shoot up a self-driving Corolla and still not stop it,” observed NRA spokesperson Andrew Canard. “A rocket propelled grenade would. It'd even stop a Camry.” Rocket propelled grenades utilize “shaped charges.

Then reports would turn back to Iraq, where rocket-propelled grenades were flying. Over time, I have written on a range of research topics, but it's always interesting to find out what resonates. Previous columns in the Business Journal, for example, have addressed the Federal Reserve's low-interest rate ...

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck a target belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip early Sunday morning in retaliation for an explosion on Israel's border with the Strip the day before. Reports in Gaza said the Israel Air Force struck targets in the enclave's center and south. In a statement, the IDF's ...

As we waited in Kabul, Afghanistan, for a flight to Bagram Air Field, he told me about getting hit in the face by a rocket propelled grenade on Sept. 9, 2010. It was a true Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment and the story behind that incident, and his life as a freelance foreign correspondent, is now captured in ...

Joseph Duo, a Liberian government commander, exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge on July 20, 2003, in Monrovia, Liberia. This became one of Hondros's most well-known photos, and an iconic image of the Liberian Civil War. Later Hondros returned to ...

His iconic image of a government commander jumping with joy on a bridge during the Liberian civil war in 2003 established Chris Hondros as one of the foremost conflict photographers in the world. Seven years after he was killed on assignment in Libya, his childhood friend, Greg Campbell, pays tribute to ...

The UN has been looking into a North Korean freighter that was intercepted off the coast of Egypt in 2016 and found to be carrying 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades, with an estimated value of £18.84 million, concealed beneath a cargo of iron ore, The New York Times reported. The UN study, which is due ...

It accused those detained of being members of a cell formed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and said that as many as 48 of those detained had received military training in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. They received training on the use of explosives, light arms, artillery and rocket-propelled grenades, ...

For example, weapons like rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, are legal, but rare, because of tight laws. The laws for AR-15s and similar semi-automatic weapons need to be as strong as those for RPGs. And there should not be some gun-show loophole for these military-grade weapons. People opposed ...

After suspected Boko Haram militants launched a brutal attack in the town of Rann in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State Thursday, killing several people including aid workers, Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of the town. The departure is sure to be a blow to the tens of thousands of displaced people ...

Construction and transportation vehicles are parked Thursday on the site where a search warrant was executed Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, of Chad Monson's property in Willmar, Minn. The search yielded methamphetamine, pills, cocaine, numerous firearms, ammunition, and a rocket-propelled grenade ...

What you need to know about global arms sales in 6 charts. The volume of international sales of major weapons between 2013–17 was 10% higher than in the previous five years, according to research. FILE: An Afghan soldier carries a rocket-propelled grenade and launcher. Picture: AFP. World Economic ...

“Warfighters will be able to tell if the person lurking behind the truck down the road is holding a rocket-propelled grenade or a shovel,” according to the Raytheon website, the company that builds the LRAS3. In addition, Youngblood said technology known as an “Inertia Measuring Device” will finally allow ...