When the control computer has decided the best time to launch, it tells a launcher to fire a missile or missiles - typically two might be fired at a target in rapid succession because one alone does not guarantee a hit.
It is not clear if the rocket launcher had been in storage in the house where it was found for a long time, or brought there recently in preparation for an attack on a police vehicle.
BBC: Worn and rusting rocket launcher still capable of killing
We spent some time with it, and while we're impressed with the new lock screen, honeycomb app launcher, and browser, it's obviously just a paint job -- it's still kinda laggy and the media features haven't been changed at all.
It is not clear if this is simply the result of the launcher's age, or evidence that it has been used in previous attacks.
BBC: Worn and rusting rocket launcher still capable of killing
Korean messaging services KakaoTalk revealed to Forbes last month that it was working on its own Android launcher to compete with Home.
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Worst-case, it's easy enough to replace the launcher with something else that suits your particular needs, if necessary.
Is it possible, therefore, that one could be transporting a Scud-type missile -- loaded, not in its hold under sacks of concrete, but onto a transporter-erector-launcher -- and remain undetected as it moved within range of one of America's many littoral population centers?
The update also tweaks and rebrands the "quickplay" item that was introduced just last year -- removing the app launcher from the Xbox guide, and renaming it to "recent" on the console's home screen.
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But there will also be a sense of relief that it is not a much more recent version of a rocket launcher as that would indicate that dissidents have secured a new supply of weapons.
BBC: Worn and rusting rocket launcher still capable of killing
As you might expect, it'll serve as the phone's home screen and launcher.
It expands the regular Facebook application out to take over the app launcher, to take over the UI, and to take over the home screen.
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"Would take a lot of work to get it working for Minecraft, but not impossible - especially with the new launcher, " Mojang dev Nathan Adams tweeted yesterday regarding the Rift.
Most complaints thus far have centered on Home's failings as an app launcher -- when you install Home on any phone, it rearranges your apps because there's no folder support and no app dock.
The question is, have dissidents had this rocket launcher in their arsenal for a long time, or was it acquired much more recently when a former member of the Provisional IRA with access to an old arms dump decided to join dissident ranks?
BBC: Worn and rusting rocket launcher still capable of killing
They claim that the new launcher will be much simpler and more reliable than its predecessor when it is put into service in 2000.
While this may come off as a bit schizophrenic, the tandem launcher is particularly helpful in Claystone's current state, as it takes an inappropriate amount of time to scroll through the 3 x 3 grid of application icons on the home screen.
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Cryosat carries the "2" designation because it is actually a rebuild of a mission that was destroyed in 2005 when its then launcher (also a converted missile) failed just minutes into its flight.
Also curiously absent in the campaign were the rocket launcher and Spartan laser, two old favorites, but they do end up making it into multiplayer.
But to give these troops greater mobility, it is buying eight Cougar helicopters from France, each capable of carrying 25 men and a rocket-launcher.
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