rocket-launcher

plural rocket-launchers

1. alternativeAlternative form of rocket launcher.

   They saw where Russian tanks had left snow-packed paths alongside their roadway while all around the same steady drum beat: exploding tank shells, shrieking rocket-launchers, screaming missiles.

   2023 June 3, Joe Starita, “A busted Volvo and 900 miles to go: Ukrainian family narrowly escaped death and destruction before landing in Lincoln”, in Kearney Hub, volume 135, number 130, Kearney, Neb.: Lee Enterprises, page C2, column 5

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   American troops believe that their secret weapon, a rocket-launcher that costs only 10s. to make, and is never called by any other name than the Bazooka, is going to cause very bad headaches among the crews of Nazi armoured vehicles.

   1943 April 5, “The Lighter Side”, in Nottingham Evening Post, number 20,191, Nottingham, Notts., page 3

   I cannot logically understand why we should have a sacred right to own and use this murderous weapon of war but not have a constitutional right to “bear” and use a shoulder-fired grenade-launcher capable of destroying a car, or a shoulder-fired, light anti-tank rocket-launcher capable of destroying a small house.

   2018 June 13, R.J. Brewer, “Retired Marine: Repeal the Second Amendment”, in Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, N.M.: Journal Publishing Company, page A15, column 2