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A Pioneer I Remotely-Piloted Vehicle (RPV) is launched during a rocket-booster assisted takeoff from the stern of the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61). The RPV, which carries a stabilized television camera and a laser designator, is being tested aboard the IOWA as a basic gunfire support system with over-the-horizon targeting and reconnaissance capabilities. The system may be operated out to a range of 110 miles from the battleship surface group and has an endurance of eight hours

An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft releases a decoy flare during Exercise COPE THUNDER '86-3. During the exercise more than 60 aircraft from the US and the Far East will be pitted against each other in daily combat scenarios, dogfights and bomb runs

An air-to-air right side view of an F-111 aircraft trailing flames during a demonstration for Open House '83

An F-16A Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing drops a flare over the Crow Valley Electronic Warfare Tactical Range during Exercise COPE THUNDER '84-7. The flare is designed to misguide heat-seeking missiles

A rocket fired from a M142 high mobility rocket system

U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion,

A Standard-ER/SM-2 (RIM-67) surface-to-air missile, right, just launched from the Vertical Launching System (VLS), approaches a BQM-34A target drone during VLS testing

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An Otomat anti-ship missile is fired from a ship-mounted launcher. This type of missile is used aboard the Libyan Assad class missile corvettes

A starboard quarter view of the Libyan "Assad" class missile corvette "Assad Al Tadjier" underway. The ship is fitted with four Otomat anti-shipping missiles, one 76mm OTO Melara cannon and a twin 35mm Oerlikon/OTO Melara turret aft

A Pershing II battlefield support missile is fired from an erector/launcher vehicle on McGregor Range

Amphibious assault vehicles maneuver aboard USS New

The Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS

The Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS

An RIM-66C Standard missile is fired from the forward Mark 26 Mod 1 launcher aboard the guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47). The missile is being fired at a target drone on the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility, Puerto Rico

A rocket is fired from an AH-64 Apache assigned to

Starboard beam view of the guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47) firing a missile from its forward launcher during sea trials. The ship is equipped with the Aegis weapon system

An Otomat anti-ship missile is fired from a ship-mounted launcher. This type of missile is used aboard the Libyan Assad class missile corvettes

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An US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon from the 78th Fighter Squadron (FS), Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, releases a GBU-31 2,000 pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) over the Eglin AFB, Land Range during a test mission

JET THRUSTER MOUNTED ON FREE JET RIG IN THE 10X10 FOOT WIND TUNNEL AREA

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) David Johnson (left), GUNNER, and Sergeant (SGT) Justin Javar (right), Assistant GUNNER, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Battalion (BN), 17th Infantry Regiment (1/17th), 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), fire illumination flares from inside their Stryker Mortar Carrier Vehicle (MCV) 120 mm mortar cannon, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, in order to light-up the night sky over Mosul, Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), in order to deny Iraqi insurgents the opportunity to place improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under the cover of darkness

A Mark 29 box launcher aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) is elevated to a firing position prior to launching a RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile

Representatives of the General Dynamics Corp. ride on a trailer with a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile during the "San Diego Salutes the Troops" parade. The parade is being held to honor all veterans, with special recognition being given to units that took part in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A pair of Marine Corps Super AH-1W Super Cobra Attack helicopters line up at a target range as one fires a TOW missile at a designated target on an Egyptian firing range just outside of Mubarak Military City in Egypt. Marines from the 1ST Tank Battalion, 29 Palms, California, conducted an In-Stride Breech live fire demonstration in front of numerous nations as part of coalition training for this year's BRIGHT STAR 01-02 exercise. An In-Stride Breach is a special type of operation used to overcome and breakthrough unexpected or lightly defended obstacles. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional...

An SM-3 (Block 1A) missile is launched from the Japan

An F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing flies alongside Falcon as the planes are en route to Saudi Arabia to take part in Operation Desert Shield. The aircraft in the foreground is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles

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An SM-3 missile is launched from the Japan Maritime

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