The first ASROC system using the MK-112 " Matchbox " launcher, was developed in the 1950s and installed in the 1960s.

Ships with the Mk 26 GMLS, and late marks of the Mk 10 GMLS aboard the " Belknap "- class, could accommodate ASROC in these power-loaded launchers ( the Mk 13 GMLS was not able to fire the weapon, as the launcher rail was too short ).

During the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.

HK was contracted by the U. S. Army to produce the kinetic energy subsystem ( see: kinetic projectiles or kinetic energy penetrator ) of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, a planned replacement for the M16 / M203 grenade launcher combination.

The heavy BM-31 launcher was also referred to as Andryusha ( Андрюша, an endearing diminutive of “ Andrew ”).

The weapon's disadvantage was the long time it took to reload a launcher, in contrast to conventional guns which could sustain a continuous low rate of fire.

In June 1938, the Soviet Jet Propulsion Research Institute ( RNII ) in Leningrad was authorized by the Main Artillery Directorate ( GAU ) to develop a multiple rocket launcher for the RS-132 aircraft rocket ( RS for, ' rocket-powered shell ').

In the first Quake the rocket launcher was so effective that it dominated entire deathmatches while the rocket launcher in Quake II so weak that it was sometimes ignored.

Created for the Spanish Navy, el Peral was " roughly 71 feet long, with a 9-foot beam and a height of almost 9 feet amidships, with one horizontal and two small vertical propellers, Peral's " cigar ," as the workers called it, ... had a periscope, a chemical system to oxygenate the air for a crew of six, a speedometer, spotlights, and a launcher at the bow capable of firing three torpedoes.

It was armed with the technically advanced but troublesome M81 / M81E1 152mm gun / launcher which fired conventional ammunition and the MGM-51 Shillelagh guided anti-tank missile.

It could also be launched quicker, as Matador's boosters had to be fitted while the missile was on the launcher while Regulus was stowed with its boosters attached.

The panel application was also rewritten for better positioning, transparency, item and launcher management.

He was usually armed with an M79 grenade launcher, although towards the end of the war it was replaced with an XM148 grenade launcher underslinging an M16 rifle in very small numbers.

The project was Western Europe's second attempt to develop its own launcher following the unsuccessful Europa project.

The Ariane project was code-named L3S ( the French abbreviation for third-generation substitution launcher ).

Ariane 1 was a three-stage launcher, derived from missile technology.

In 1970 the project was under a perceived economic threat from America's proposed Space Shuttle-Europe knew it could not build ( and never has ) a similar launcher.

This was the prototype of the hardened Titan I launch control facility and consisted of one silo-lift launcher, blockhouse, and associated equipment.

An action figure of Fox McCloud armed with a missile launcher was produced to accompany the game, but never got beyond the prototype stage.

The Phoenix RLV launcher, the prototype of Hopper launcher, was part of the German national program ASTRA, a € 40 million project founded by the German Federal Government, EADS Astrium Space Transportation and the State of Bremen with one third each.

The air launcher version of HF-2 carried by AT-3 is different than the one supposed carried by original IDF ( F-CK-1A / B ) prototype, due to differences in length of the HF-2 missile ( better known as HF-2 Mark 3 and Mark 4 ), where the missile designed for one aircraft cannot fit on another aircraft.

Larger-scale devices which serve to launch rockets include the multiple rocket launcher, a type of unguided rocket artillery system ; the transporter erector launcher, a vehicle with an integrated prime mover that can carry, elevate to firing position and launch one or more missiles and various launchers for guided missiles, including ones for surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, and antisubmarine warfare guided missiles ( see ASROC, Sea Lance, etc.

The launcher would then stage by dropping outer CRPUs, leaving the interior ones to continue with payload.

To obtain the accuracy needed, the RAT-C rocket launcher had to be redesigned with larger side fins.

Most other US Navy and allied navy destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, and several different classes of cruisers only carried the one ASROC ' matchbox ' MK 112 launcher with eight ASROC missiles ( although later in service, some of those missiles could be replaced by the Harpoon anti-ship missile ).

The player character starts armed only with a pistol, and brass-knuckled fists in case the ammunition runs out, but larger weapons can be picked up: these are a chainsaw, a shotgun, a chaingun, a rocket launcher, a plasma rifle, and finally the immensely powerful BFG 9000.

ICBMs can be deployed from Transporter erector launcher | TELs such as the Russian RT-2UTTH Topol M | Topol.

* on heavy trucks ; this applies to one version of the RT-2UTTH Topol M which may be deployed from a self-propelled mobile launcher, capable of moving through roadless terrain, and launching a missile from any point along its route

The rocket launcher in Quake III is effective but not overpowering, allowing it to be countered in many situations.

The launcher is designed such that the rocket exits the launcher without discharging an exhaust that would be dangerous to the operator.

In Afghanistan, the Mujahideen often modified RPGs for use against Soviet helicopters by adding a curved pipe to the rear of the launcher tube, which diverted the backblast, allowing the RPG to be fired upward at aircraft from a prone position.

Laser guidance can be provided either from the launcher, such as the nose-mounted opto-electronics of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, other airborne target designators or from ground based observers, the latter two options allowing the launcher to break line of sight with the target and seek cover.

" Hopping " with the grenade launcher or rockets can be used, but usually involves a fair amount of damage to the character.

Also in the UK in 1967 the go-ahead had been given for the UK's ( separately developed ) three-stage Black Arrow rocket launcher ( made by Westland Aircraft, with Bristol Siddeley rocket engines developed at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire )-Britain did not need to rely on Europa, and Black Arrow would be ready first.

The use of much smaller electronics greatly reduced stack height of the launcher, allowing an additional two missiles to be added, for a total of eight.

Following this successful launch, Major General David Wade, Commander of the 1st Missile Division, declared the coffin-type launcher to be operational.

For example, the Rosetta mission of ESA was originally intended for comet 46P / Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected ( comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko ).

Before a gun or launcher could be aimed it had to be oriented in a known azimuth, or at least towards the target area.

Pellets are used for the majority of play, although foam balls may be used to represent M203 styled grenade launcher shells.

Perigee can be anywhere above the atmosphere, but is usually limited to only a few hundred km above the Earth's surface to reduce launcher delta-V ( V ) requirements and to limit the orbital lifetime of the spent booster.

Because of this practice launcher capacity is usually quoted as separated spacecraft mass to GTO, and this number will be higher than the payload that could be delivered directly into GEO.