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  2. Directed-energy weapon - Wikipedia

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    A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. [1] [2]

  3. RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    A beta version of RuneScape 2 was released to paying members for a testing period beginning on 1 December 2003, and ending in March 2004. [62] Upon its official release, RuneScape 2 was renamed simply RuneScape, while the older version of the game was kept online under the name RuneScape Classic.

  4. Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon

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    It is a portable assault weapon (i.e., bunker buster) and has a secondary anti-armor ability. Developed from the B-300 , it was introduced to the United States Armed Forces in 1984. Compared to the Israel Military Industries' ( IMI Systems ) B-300 , the American-redesigned SMAW launcher shares similar external characteristics but differs mainly ...

  5. Shoulder-fired missile - Wikipedia

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    Shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile or man-portable missile, among other variants, are common slang terms to describe high-caliber shoulder-mounted weapons systems; that is, weapons firing large, heavy projectiles ("missiles"), typically using the backblast principle, which are small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while held on one's shoulder.

  6. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  7. XM214 Microgun - Wikipedia

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    The XM214 was first developed for aircraft applications. Later General Electric developed it into a man-portable weapon system, known as the GE Six-Pak.The complete Six-Pak system weighed 85 pounds (38.5 kg) with 1,000 rounds of ammunition, comparable in weight to some heavy machine guns.

  8. Suitcase nuclear device - Wikipedia

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    The value of portable nuclear weapons lies in their ability to be easily smuggled across borders, transported by means widely available, and placed close to targets of strategic value, or as means to render enemy land uninhabitable. [8] In nuclear weapon design, there is a trade-off in small weapons designs between weight and compact size.

  9. 9K333 Verba - Wikipedia

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    The 9K333 Verba (Russian: Верба, "Willow") is a Russian fourth-generation [1] man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM) MANPADS. "9K333" is the Russian GRAU designation of the system. Its NATO reporting name is SA-29 Gizmo. [2]