launching tube in a sentence
Examples
- Police said a large quantity of fireworks and launching tubes were reported missing about 9 : 10 p . m . Saturday from Cousins Fireworks Co.
- Like the HJ-8, the HJ-9 utilizes a disposable container / launching tube, but the one for HJ-9 is heavier, weighing because HJ-9 is larger than HJ-8.
- Bogota's police chief, Gen . Jorge Castro, said a launching tube was found in a field in the National University campus, often a hotbed of radicalism.
- AS-10 and SS-11 missiles were testing in several different configurations, and so were high capacity rocket launchers such as the XM3 launcher, which had 24 launching tubes.
- The launching tube is also manufactured by the so-called " production units " of the Ezzedeen-al-Qassam brigades, modeled roughly on the appearance of the RPG-7 Russian rocket launcher.
- The Mark 8 torpedo only found its target 10 percent of the time, with the weapon sometimes malfunctioning before it ever cleared the launching tube, according to Shannon.
- Poor and Sogge have patented a new type of launching tube in which stars are propelled out of the tube by pressured gas rather than by ignited black powder.
- Half an hour after the attack, authorities found an abandoned rocket-launching tube in the courtyard of an apartment building about 100 yards across the heavily travelled Garden Ring Road.
- Police spotted the launching tubes in a bamboo grove 1 kilometer ( a half mile ) from the airport and were approaching the area when the rockets were fired.
- Symmetry is the biggest challenge for aficionados of fireworks these days . The launching tubes used for the new technology are taller and therefore can be aimed with greater precision.