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  2. Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon

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    The Mk 80 Mod 0 Encased Novel Explosive (SMAW-NE) rocket is effective against caves, buildings, and bunkers. The SMAW-NE has an enhanced-blast warhead with a 4 lb (1.8 kilograms) charge of PBXN-113 and a slightly modified version of the dual mode fuze used by the HEDM rocket, the Mk 420 Mod 1. [24]

  3. Mobile launcher platform - Wikipedia

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    The Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter. A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled (stacked) vertically in an integration facility (e.g. the Vehicle Assembly Building) and then transported by a crawler-transporter (CT) to a launch pad.

  4. Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster - Wikipedia

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    The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight. [1] A pair of them provided 85% of the Space Shuttle's thrust at liftoff and for the first two minutes of ascent.

  5. DIRECT & Jupiter Rocket Family - Wikipedia

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    As with NASA's Constellation Program baseline, two launches would be performed for a DIRECT lunar mission. One Jupiter-246 rocket would carry the crew in NASA's planned Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle along with NASA's planned Lunar Surface Access Module lunar lander. Another Jupiter-246 would be launched, its Jupiter Upper Stage (JUS) fully ...

  6. RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile - Wikipedia

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    Mk 144 Guided Missile Launcher (GML) of the Mk 49 Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS) The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile ( RAM ) is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the German , Japanese , Greek , Turkish , South Korean , Saudi Arabian , Egyptian , Mexican , UAE , and United States navies.

  7. Rocket Raccoon - Wikipedia

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    The character was created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen, [1] and inspired by the Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon". [2] [3] Other references to the song were featured in Rocket's appearance in The Incredible Hulk #271 (May 1982), which was titled "Now Somewhere In the Black Holes of Sirius Major There Lived a Young Boy Named Rocket Raccoon" and saw the Hulk help Rocket stop a villain trying to ...

  8. SpaceX Merlin - Wikipedia

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    The Merlin 1B rocket engine was an upgraded version of the Merlin 1A engine. The turbopump upgrades were handled by Barber-Nichols, Inc. for SpaceX. [ 10 ] It was intended for Falcon 1 launch vehicles, capable of producing 380 kN (85,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level and 420 kN (95,000 lbf) in vacuum, and performing with a specific impulse of 261 ...

  9. Comparison of orbital rocket engines - Wikipedia

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    Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) Mass (kg) Thrust: weight ratio [b] Oxidiser: fuel ratio