Just last week the US Navy intercepted a ship that was headed from Iran to Gaza with missiles and rockets on board.

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Yemen's president has called on Iran to stop backing armed groups in his country after coastguards seized a ship carrying missiles and rockets.

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For months then prime minister Ehud Olmert sat on his hands as southern Israel was pummeled with unprovoked barrages of thousands of missiles and rockets from Gaza.

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Leading defence companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have been changing their profile too, turning themselves into something more than makers of fighters, missiles and rockets.

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The US Navy used Vieques between 1941 and 2003 to practice firing rockets, missiles and bombs.

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It was a flame that spearheaded one of the greatest open desert battles in Desert Shield and Desert Storm and led the way as those rockets and missiles from Apaches and MLRS and our strike forces went across and defeated what was supposed to be the mother of all battles.

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The range offers the largest area in the UK for the live-firing of rockets and missiles.

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government squandered the unprecedented international support that Israel enjoyed on July 12, 2006 when it properly decided to go to war after Hizbullah attacked northern Israel with rockets and missiles and kidnapped IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

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Many have experience in aerospace working on jets, rockets, missiles, satellites and unmanned aircraft.

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