Sentences with phrase «of rockets fired»

This is still a significantly higher price than that of the rockets fired at Israel, whose cost ranges from hundreds to a few thousand dollars.

Would Iron Dome have been able to provide a solution to the thousands of rockets fired at Israel in the Second Lebanon war?

Rubin (2011, 21 — 22) estimated that the average number of rockets fired per fatality climbed from about 100 in 2002 up to 2,100 by 2008.

Assad is keen to recapture Ghouta to eliminate the opposition from the outskirts of Damascus and end years of rocket fire on the capital.

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Not exact matches

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

It was the second ballistic missile fired from Yemen this month, after an earlier rocket was brought down near King Khaled Airport on the northern outskirts of the capital Riyadh.

«You're going to see precision fire delivered off amphib ships, whether it comes out of tube guns or rockets or delivered from unmanned systems.»

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

The Gulf has seen a number of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the past year, including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and the brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.

Over the next 10 days, that operation, which began as a response to rocket fire, instead turned into a tunnel - destroying mission as the gravity of the threat they posed became clear.

Thousands of rockets had been fired by Hamas and other Gaza terror groups indiscriminately into Israel.

After the BFR (also called a first stage) runs out of fuel, the spaceship would separate from the rocket and fire its own engines.

Being engineered as among the most survivable and heavily armored vehicles in existence, the Abrams tank is built to withstand a high degree of enemy fire, such some enemy tank rounds, RPGs, rockets and missiles.

Workers also successfully test - fired all 27 of the rocket's Merlin engines in January, which are attached to the boosters in clusters of nine.

How do you normalize nation - states regularly firing rockets full of people at each other without someone starting World War III?

In July, SpaceX conducted a full - duration test - firing of a Falcon 9 rocket that had already been in orbit.

When he's not plotting the colonization of Mars and firing rockets into orbit, the gutsy billionaire lives it up like the rest of us, only bigger.

Why, after 60 or so heavier rockets have been fired at Tel Aviv, has not one impact been registered to date within city limits, save for the debris of visibly intercepted ones?

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

How can it be that more than 2,200 rockets of all kinds have been fired at Israeli population centers since July 8, but there have been so few casualties?

Israel's decision on whether to bomb Iran's nuclear sites — as it has repeatedly threatened to do — could hinge on its estimate of the retaliatory costs, including damage inflicted by rockets fired from southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Iron Dome commanders fire only when radar systems and computer projections of rocket trajectories show threats to populated areas.

Flournoy said President Trump's tough talk about North Korea — which has included deriding Kim Jong Un as «Little Rocket Man» and threatening to rain «fire and fury» down on his country — made it «much more likely now that one side or the other will misread what was intended as a show of commitment or a show of force.»

Rubin (2015) notes that fatalities and damage claims per rocket fired decreased between Second Lebanon, Pillar of Defense, and Protective Edge.

It may perform a static fire of its new Falcon Heavy rocket as soon as Saturday on its Florida launch pad, and it is pressing ahead with future launches.

Next down from these rockets are two types of Kassam rockets: improvised locally produced rockets and mortar shells, which the terrorist fire mostly at communities close to the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip.

Of the 4,000 rockets fired at us, most fell on open ground, and only 1,000 on inhabited areas.

The US will shortly release hundreds of millions of dollars more for the procurement of more batteries, more interceptor rockets, and more radar systems to track incoming Grad missiles fired against Israel's home front by terrorist organizations in Gaza.

This is something that the IDF has done frequently in the past in order to stop heavy rocket fire only to have to retreat under international pressure, and to claim that there is no absolute solution to the threat which is a kind of fatalism.

Rubin's analysis also finds that for every Grad rocket that was intercepted in flight, an average of two and a half Tamir interception missiles were fired.

«If in every round there was extensive rocket fire at cities like Ashkelon, Ashdod and Beersheva, you can only assume that much loss of life and destruction property was prevented.

But of course it goes beyond that: thanks to a high capacity to intercept rockets, the IDF and the politicians are more able to refrain from harsher responses to the fire from Gaza, in a ground operation, for example.

«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»

Hundreds of rockets were fired, military force was striking back and civilian deaths were mounting on both sides.

Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket - propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy.

I don't know whether you would call it prayer, but I often contemplate, become the sun - fired tree I gaze at, become the music while the music lasts, lose myself in the dancing lights of a wooded stream or the rosy tops of thunderclouds seen from the window of a rocketing 747.

Israel claims the offensive is to destroy the supply of rockets which are being fired from Gaza into the country.

But they claim they only fired rockets because they were acting to defend their people from the restrictive policies of Israel which were starving the Palestinians.

These days, as I'm thinking I might be ready for a new relationship, I'm no longer drawn to sauces like Tongues of Fire, Rectal Rocket Fuel, and Ass Blaster.

And then McElwain rocketed from probably fine to basically getting fired mid-game in the span of about three weeks.

Arsenal kept plugging away and Theo Walcott flew behind the Bayern defence and fired a rocket into the roof of Manuel» Neuer's net to give Arsenal hope of an unlikely upset.

Meanwhile, Tiger prodigy Jason Day, who withdrew from the pro-am with a bad back earlier in the week, had the round of the day, firing an 8 - under 64 to get to 7 - under for the week and rocket up the leaderboard into a tie for fifth.

10 minutes in, and Danny Rose, on his Premier League debut for Tottenham, fired home what can only be described as a rocket sent from NASA, into the back of the net.

City were on the canvas - bloodied - as Mane fired home a rocket into the top corner and Salah punished a poor clearance from Ederson by lofting an effort over the out - of - position Brazilian.

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So Barça did exactly what we all thought, defending and absorbing pressure until they got a killer counter-attack: Jordi Alba with a steal near midfield, Suárez finds Messi who rounds the defense and fires a rocket on the ground that goes throught the legs of Courtois AGAIN.

He opened his Major League Soccer scoring account in the second half against the Dynamo, firing a rocket into the roof of the net after dazzling the hosts» defenders with a few neat step - overs and some intricate one - on - one dribbling.

Pirates on two boats reportedly fired rocket - propelled grenades at the Seabourn Spirit, a luxury liner carrying 151 passengers, as it rounded the Horn of Africa on its way from Alexandria, Egypt, to Mombasa in Kenya.

Last night there was a last - minute bombardment of Gaza ahead of an expected ceasefire, while 150 rockets were fired back at Israel.