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  2. HMX - Wikipedia

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    HMX, also called octogen, is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive chemically related to RDX. The compound's name is the subject of much speculation, having been variously listed as High Melting Explosive , High-velocity Military Explosive , or High-Molecular-weight RDX .

  3. List of vehicular combat games - Wikipedia

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    Alien Front Online, the primary good forces are tanks and the secondary alien forces are played as mechs; Arcticfox; Armored Warfare; BattleTanx series; Battlezone, original arcade game and home conversions

  4. Rocket-propelled grenade - Wikipedia

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    The weapon therefore featured a metal shield attached to the launch tube to protect the operator’s face from the blast. With later designs such as the RPG-7, the rocket exits the launcher with a low-powered gunpowder charge, and the main rocket motor then fires after the rocket has travelled 10 m (33 ft). In some other designs, the propellant ...

  5. M142 HIMARS - Wikipedia

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    The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS / ˈ h aɪ m ɑːr z /) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army and mounted on a standard U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1140 truck frame.

  6. FGM-148 Javelin - Wikipedia

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    A small launch motor using conventional rocket propellant ejects the missile from the launcher, but stops burning before the missile clears the tube. The flight motor is ignited after a delay to allow sufficient clearance from the operator.

  7. Thermobaric weapon - Wikipedia

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    Blast from a US Navy fuel–air explosive used against a decommissioned ship, USS McNulty, 1972 A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, [1] is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive.

  8. Monopropellant rocket - Wikipedia

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    A monopropellant rocket (or "monochemical rocket") is a rocket that uses a single chemical as its propellant. [1] Monopropellant rockets are commonly used as small attitude and trajectory control rockets in satellites, rocket upper stages, crewed spacecraft, and spaceplanes.

  9. RPG-7 - Wikipedia

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    The RPG-7 [a] is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank, rocket launcher.The RPG-7 and its predecessor, the RPG-2, were designed by the Soviet Union, and are now manufactured by the Russian company Bazalt.