The capabilities of the Royal Air Force of Oman have been enhanced with advanced jet plans, logistic planes, helicopters, air defence systems, such as anti
aircraft rocket batteries, radars, training aircrafts and training simulators.
Large-calibre rockets such as America's five-inch (127 mm) Hvar (High Velocity
Aircraft Rocket) appear to have gone out of favour in the West, perhaps because of the availability of precision guided weapons, but Russia retains a wide range of rocket projectiles from 57 to 240 mm.
Meanwhile Thomson Brandt and PRB-Gechem have combined their
aircraft rocket activities in SA Forges de Zeebrugge (FZ).
He explained that a security detachment found a pile from the remnants of war materials west of the city, adding that the stack included a number of bombs, mortars and anti-
aircraft rocket in addition to shells of various sizes.
Contract Awarded to Provide additional 2.75-inch
aircraft rocket launchers and/or subcomponents to support Navy, Marine Corp and Air Force operations (training and in theatre)
Grad multiple rocket launcher systems, unguarded
aircraft rockets with pellet warheads, and other types of heavy offensive weaponry are being used to kill civilians in violation of international law.
They included S-8 unguided
aircraft rockets as well as rocket launcher parts and solid rocket fuel, said the influential Jutarnji List daily.
At dawn today, the
aircraft rocketed a police station in the town of Khan Youness, simultaneously with a chain of raids on various locations in the border town of Rafah and Gaza city.
Among those listed are air bombs, unguided
aircraft rockets and rocket pods, along with weaponry, which the message states is all on sale at reduced prices.
High-velcocity
aircraft rockets, like these on the flight line of Marine Fighter squadron 214 in the Korean War, evolved from the Navy's fledgling testing program of the early 1940s.
With Skyraiders acting as target coordinators, a dozen Corsairs and five Skyraiders attacked the Inchon beach with 500- and 1,000-pound general-purpose bombs, 5" high-velocity
aircraft rockets (HVAR) and 3.5" target spotting rockets, and also conducted strafing runs.
