rocket weapon
1Rocket launcher — For other uses, see Rocket launcher (disambiguation). Shoulder launched weapons avoid the problem of recoil by directing all exhaust out the rear of the launch tube (Swedish AT4) …
2Rocket vessel — A rocket vessel was a ship equipped with rockets as a weapon. The most famous ship of this type was HMS Erebus , which at the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 provided the rockets red glare that was memorialized by Francis Scott Key in The Star… …
3Weapon Alpha — (originally Weapon Able , officially RUR 4) was an ahead throwing ASW rocket launcher.Similar to the earlier American Mousetrap, 375mm (14.8 ) Swedish Bofors, and 250mm (9.8 ) and 300mm (11.8 ) Soviet systems, all of which use multiple rockets,… …
4Rocket propellant — is mass that is stored, usually in some form of propellant tank, prior to being used as the propulsive mass that is ejected from a rocket engine in the form of a fluid jet to produce thrust.Chemical rocket propellants are most commonly used,… …
5Rocket artillery — is a type of artillery equipped with rocket launchers instead of conventional guns or mortars. Types of rocket artillery pieces include multiple rocket launchers. HistoryPre modern historyThe use of rockets as some form of artillery dates back to …
6rocket — rock‧et [ˈrɒkt ǁ ˈrɑː ] also rocket up verb [intransitive] if a price or amount rockets, it increases quickly and suddenly: • Interest rates rocketed. • Mexican shares rocketed up 5.4% yesterday. * * * Ⅰ. rocket UK US /ˈrɒkɪt/ noun [C] …
7rocket launcher — n. any of various devices that launch rockets; specif., a) a rocket launching device on a truck or tanklike vehicle, or the vehicle itself b) a rocket launching device on a ship, airplane, etc. c) a portable rocket launching weapon, as a bazooka …
8rocket — [n] projectile booster, firework, guided missile, ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile, missile, spacecraft, spaceship, torpedo, weapon; concept 500 rocket [v] shoot up ascend, climb, escalate, go through the ceiling, grow, lift, rise, sail,… …
9rocket and missile system — ▪ weapons system Introduction any of a variety of weapons systems that deliver explosive warheads to their targets by means of rocket propulsion. Rocket is a general term used broadly to describe a variety of jet propelled missiles… …
10Rocket-propelled grenade — RPG, or rocket propelled grenade, is a loose term describing hand held, shoulder launched anti tank weapons capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. RPG is a transliteration of РПГ, the Russian abbreviation of… …
