AFGHANISTAN, ROCKET LAUNCHER AT WORK
SEE ALSO ON THE FRONTLINE AND NORTHERN ALLIANCE
A Day in the life of a rocket-launcher team.
You may watch a video with this same rocket-launcher at work HERE (available very SOON)
All these pictures were taken on Awar Soy frontline, the afternoon prior to its fall to the Taleban at 00.30 AM, September 20, 2000
SEE ALSO ON THE FRONTLINE AND NORTHERN ALLIANCE
A Day in the life of a rocket-launcher team.
You may watch a video with this same rocket-launcher at work HERE (available very SOON)
All these pictures were taken on Awar Soy frontline, the afternoon prior to its fall to the Taleban at 00.30 AM, September 20, 2000
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| 461032 The range of these rockets is well over 20 miles. A rocket-launcher, when fully loaded, can fire 40 rockets before reloading. |
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| 461033 The team commander while reading the map coordinates prior to aim the launcher |
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461042 Loaders, most of them teen agers, while insertin one of these deadly rockets in the launcher's tube
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461056 Dusk pray
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| 461244 The rocket launcher while being loaded. These 122 mm. rockets come in wooden cases. |
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| 461055 These rockets travel somehow disguised as "Parts of Bulldozer" |
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| 461062 The valuable primers, which are mounted just prior to inserting rockets in the launcher's tubes |
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