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** rocket artillery: rocket-launched instead of shot or shell.
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** At a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage ( Lower Saxonia, Germany ), 3 persons are killed by a rocket explosion.
** The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket ( carrying Sputnik I ) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M. I. T.
** Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 German scientists to help in the production of rocket technology.
** A Long March 3 rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing as many as 50.
** Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles ( the only sounding rocket developed in Germany ).
** The United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to launch a satellite into orbit, the Prospero X-3, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
** Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
** The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.
** Minuteman-III still being a missile with three solid-fuel stages, introduced in the post-boost stage (“ bus ”) an additional liquid-fuel propulsion system rocket engine ( PSRE ) that is used to slightly adjust the trajectory.
** Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket ( 2000 )
** 1 × AIR-2A Genie nuclear rocket or AIM-26 Super Falcon missile, a capability replaced since 1972 with a gun pod
** BMO-1 ( boyevaya mashina ognemyotchikov ) – Transport vehicle for a flamethrower squad, armed with 30 RPO-A " Shmel " napalm rocket launchers of 93 mm.
** and artillery
** anti-aircraft artillery: weapons, usually mobile, designed for attacking aircraft from the ground.
** 2 field artillery brigades, each comprising 4 batteries with 6 x 18 pounders ( 8 kg ) and 2 x 4. 5-inch Howitzers
** German aircraft attack U. S. Navy warships bombarding coastal artillery batteries near San Stéfano di Camastra, Sicily, but score no hits.
** MT-LB ( izdeliye 6 )-basic model, often used as simple APC but also as artillery tractor or ambulance.
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