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Secondly, in 1973, the Egyptians snuck an entire army over water and desert into position to attack Israel on their most vulnerable day of the year (Yom Kippur) ... newly armed to the teeth with Soviet armour and anti-armour guided missiles.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Denel Dynamics 'proven Ingwe long-range anti-armour missile was destined for the Missile variant.
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His suspicion was that depleted uranium particles from the two Gulf wars – DU is used in the anti-armour warheads of the ordnance of American and British tanks and planes – may have spread across Europe.
Depleted Uranium, Fisk and Numbers Zoe Brain 2006
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RPG is a Russian-made rocket propelled grenade; it was designed originally as an anti-armour weapon but has come to be used as a form of light artillery. in Chechnya, anti-Russian forces have been known to fire the rocket upward like a mortar.
Archive 2006-08-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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His suspicion was that depleted uranium particles from the two Gulf wars – DU is used in the anti-armour warheads of the ordnance of American and British tanks and planes – may have spread across Europe.
Archive 2006-03-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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The only anti-armour weapon in the entire entrenched line the ‘Boys Anti-tank gun’ was, predictably, somewhere else on the day, no doubt having its barrel oiled.
Reuters Report 11/11/2004 Nick 2004
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The only anti-armour weapon in the entire entrenched line the ‘Boys Anti-tank gun’ was, predictably, somewhere else on the day, no doubt having its barrel oiled.
Archive 2004-11-01 Nick 2004
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Equipment includes 154 main battle tanks, 388 armoured cars and various anti-armour missile systems, artillery systems, and anti-aircraft systems.
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African helicopter-launched anti-armour missile was under construction.
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South Africa's Western Cape-based Somchem company said as far as it was aware it was the only company manufacturing shoulder-fired anti-armour weapons in South Africa, but it denied its design was based on the RPG-7 or that it had been supplied to UNITA.
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