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“They appear to have come from helicopter-launched missiles.”
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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“They appear to have come from helicopter-launched missiles.”
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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“They appear to have come from helicopter-launched missiles.”
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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“They appear to have come from helicopter-launched missiles.”
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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In fact, at a conservative estimate and assuming that our helicopter-launched missile has mass of 10kg (which is on the low side) and was travelling at, say, 500 mph (which is ~250m/s and also on the low side), the missile would have had kinetic energy of around 600kJ.
Archive 2006-08-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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In fact, at a conservative estimate and assuming that our helicopter-launched missile has mass of 10kg (which is on the low side) and was travelling at, say, 500 mph (which is ~250m/s and also on the low side), the missile would have had kinetic energy of around 600kJ.
Evidence for the ICRC Zoe Brain 2006
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African helicopter-launched anti-armour missile was under construction.
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It looks more like a scene from a Mission: Impossible or a Jason Bourne movie but this is a real-life, helicopter-launched commando-style raid on a cash depot.
Home 2010
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