Sentences with phrase «rocket fire only»

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.

Not exact matches

U.S. President Donald Trump has stunned the world by agreeing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a man he's ridiculed as «Little Rocket Man» and whose regime only months ago he threatened with «fire and fury.»

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.

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

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

«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 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.

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.

Only specialized cannon firing rocket assisted shells and MLRS launchers have that range, and N Korea has less than 1000 of them, which require rockets with a short shelf life.

According to Nozomi project manager Hajime Hayakawa, there is only a 1 % chance that the craft will plunge through the martian atmosphere and crash on 14 December if Nozomi's rocket motor can't fire.

In high school, inspired by a NASA brochure titled «So You Want to Be a Rocket Scientist,» Chang - Díaz wrote a letter of inquiry, but Houston fired back a crushing reply: NASA careers were open only to U.S. citizens.

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

All projectile items can only be used in one direction; this means that a slippery oil spill can be thrown behind the player's car but not in front, and that rockets can only be fired in front of the player and never behind them, etc..

It sounds easy enough, but the delivery platform can only fire rockets on one side of the platform at a time.

Neill Blomkamp's District 9 not only amazed sci - fi geeks with space ships, high tech guns and rocket - firing mechs, but also offered a healthy dose of thoughtful commentary on racism, apartheid and mankind's propensity for violation of human rights.

There are also more complex powerups like the ability to punch a bomb three spaces, a special bomb with fire that passes through all the soft blocks in its range (instead of only hitting the first one), or a bomb placed in a rocket that blows up on impact.

Rocket League is very popular at TiX Towers at the moment and getting the chance to drive Batman's new car is only adding fuel to the fire.

Run, jump, swing around, fire rockets, grapple onto people to knock them off the screen until only one hero is left standing.

Instead you can exploit another possibility in Half - Life: Using the secondary fire mode of the Gauss Cannon instead of the rocket launcher will also launch you high into the air but will not directly deal any damage (only eventual falling damage).

While careful planning is key, for example the heavily armoured Berserk can only be attack from the side or behind, it's also essential to avoid being stuck in the firing line of the rockets which all vehicles can carry but can only fire once per battle.

One character fired rockets, another shot energy in triangle pattern, some flew with angel wings, one character could only travel vertically within an elevator that spawned around them.

The human enemies are far more interesting to fight: on one occasion, I sniped an enemy toting a rocket launcher, only to have another enemy run over, scoop up the launcher and fire at my feet, trying to catch me with splash damage — some of the most human combat I can recall in a shooter.