The 24 Apache gunships, along with support crews and a rocket artillery battalion, will be based in Albania and pitted against Yugoslav army units in Kosovo.
Exchanges of rocket and artillery fire between Israeli forces and Hamas militants have consistently escalated, barely pausing for a planned three-hour humanitarian truce.
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Seeing his carefully nurtured negotiations melt into the hell of rocket and artillery barrages, then-U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to Damascus to mediate a ceasefire.
The Army's C-RAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) system, for example, which is used to protect American bases in Afghanistan, can fire on its own, using its six-barrel gun to blow up incoming mortars.
In the exchange the skies filled with the smoke of multiple rocket launchers, artillery and antiaircraft fire.
They will be replaced by Arabs, who will be able easily to exploit such strategic territory for rocket, mortar, artillery and other attacks on Israel.
North Korea says it has ordered artillery and rocket units into "combat posture" to prepare to target US bases in Hawaii, Guam and the US mainland.
On Tuesday, it said it had ordered artillery and rocket units into "combat posture" to prepare to target US bases in Hawaii, Guam and the US mainland.
They have showered artillery and rocket fire on Baba Amr and Khaldiyeh, two rebel-held districts of Homs, Syria's third-largest city and the hub of the current uprising.
The LCC said Darayya had came under renewed artillery and rocket fire on Wednesday, and that army reinforcements were being deployed from the nearby Mezzeh military airport.
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The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
These offices, set up over the past 15 years, deploy artillery, rocket-launchers and aeroplanes to seed clouds with chemicals (usually silver iodide) that encourage droplets to form and fall where needed, or prevent the formation of destructive hailstones.
These have included dump trucks as Secretary Rumsfeld observed on August 21 that have their back ends removed and replaced by artillery and rocket pieces and the use of refrigerated trucks, ostensibly purchased for food transport purposes, as mobile biological weapons manufacturing facilities.
These have included dump trucks -- as Secretary Rumsfeld observed on August 21 -- that have their back ends removed and replaced by artillery and rocket pieces and the use of refrigerated trucks, ostensibly purchased for food transport purposes, as mobile biological weapons manufacturing facilities.
Iraqi forces defending the city center from the east bank of the Tigris fired back at the Americans with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades, but as night fell on Monday, some American troops remained in the bombed palaces in the compound, the Iraqi equivalent of the White House, which once symbolized President Saddam Hussein's absolute power.
He said that rebels couldn't confirm whether either rocket one a Luna rocket, from the Soviet short-range artillery series, and another short-range rocket of unidentified make could hold a chemical warhead.
These days we frequently use words like 'army', 'Taleban', 'rocket', 'artillery shelling', 'Maulana Fazlullah', 'Muslim Khan' (a militant leader), 'police', 'helicopter', 'dead' and 'injured'.
Ironically, Israel has tapped air power more frequently in recent weeks, in part because it's seen as a more pinpoint or precise way of killing rocket-launch teams than artillery fire, which sprays shrapnel over a wide area.
Over the past several years, Syria has built up massive artillery, missile and rocket arsenals that are capable of causing extensive damage to the IDF and to Israeli communities in the Golan Heights and the Galilee.
"From this moment, the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army will be putting in combat duty posture No 1 all field artillery units including long-range artillery units and strategic rocket units that will target all enemy objects in US invasionary bases on its mainland, Hawaii and Guam, " the KCNA statement said.
Israeli officials voiced regret for the civilian casualties, and said the artillery fire was aimed at Palestinian rocket launchers.
Israel's military fired between 12 and 18 artillery shells into southern Lebanon Friday shortly after the rocket attack on northern Israel, according to the Israeli military and a Lebanese army official.
Pakistan fired artillery shells at Afghan forces, who responded with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
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