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  2. Rocket artillery - Wikipedia

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    Rocket artillery is artillery that uses rockets as the projectile. The use of rocket artillery dates back to medieval China where devices such as fire arrows were used (albeit mostly as a psychological weapon). Fire arrows were also used in multiple launch systems and transported via carts. The first true rocket artillery was developed in South ...

  3. Congreve rocket - Wikipedia

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    Congreve rocket. Battle of Grochów 1831, painting of Bogdan Willewalde ca. 1850. Over the fighters can be seen exploding Polish Congreve rockets. The Congreve rocket was a type of rocket artillery designed by British inventor Sir William Congreve in 1808. [1][2] The design was based upon the rockets deployed by the Kingdom of Mysore against ...

  4. List of rocket artillery - Wikipedia

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    Type 81 multiple rocket launcher People's Republic of China: 122 40 Type 90 multiple rocket launcher People's Republic of China: 122 40 HM 20 Iran: 122 40 BM-21/9K51 Grad Soviet Union: 1963 - 126 40 Kung Feng III Republic of China: 1973 - 126 40 Kung Feng IV Republic of China: 1973 - 127 32 Astros SS-30 Brazil: 1983 - 128 M71 rocket Yugoslavia ...

  5. Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The cannon was capable of firing proto-shells, cast-iron bombs filled with gunpowder. [1] Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages primarily consisted of the introduction of the cannon, large tubular firearms designed to fire a heavy projectile over a long distance. Guns, bombs, rockets and cannons were first invented in China during the Han and ...

  6. M549 - Wikipedia

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    Janes [1] The M549 is a high-explosive rocket-assisted (HERA) 155 mm howitzer round developed for use by the US military in order to add additional range to standard howitzers, with a maximum range 30.1 km (18.7 mi) from a M198 howitzer. The projectile has two distinctive pre-assembled components—the high-explosive (HE) warhead and the rocket ...

  7. Forge of Empires - Wikipedia

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    Forge of Empires is a browser-based strategy game developed by InnoGames. It was first launched on closed beta on 29 March 2012. [1][2] The game was initially released on 17 April 2012 (open beta phase). [3] In 2013, a television advertising campaign helped the game reach 10 million user registrations. [4] The game was later released on iOS ...

  8. Hwacha - Wikipedia

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    The hwacha or hwach'a (Korean: 화차; Hanja: 火車; lit. fire cart [1]) was a multiple rocket launcher and an organ gun of similar design which were developed in fifteenth century Korea. The former variant fired one or two hundred rocket-powered arrows [2][3] while the latter fired several dozen iron-headed arrows or bolts out of gun barrels.

  9. Multiple rocket launcher - Wikipedia

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    A multiple rocket launcher (MRL) or multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which are fixed to a single platform, and shoots its rocket ordnance in a fashion similar to a volley gun. Rockets are self-propelled in flight and have different capabilities than conventional artillery ...