Such a land handover would place all of Israel within Palestinian and Lebanese rocket, mortar and missile range.

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Israel has rejected relatively inexpensive existing anti-rocket and mortar systems that could provide immediate protection to Sderot among other places.

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Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.

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Jerusalem will also be within missile, rocket and mortar range.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep appreciation for U.S. funding for the Iron Dome rocket and mortar defense system, which he noted has successfully intercepted several rockets aimed at Israeli communities.

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The firm is also working on a sister land based system that can be used to target mortar and rocket rounds.

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For example, he said, one recent strike near Falluja, a volatile city west of Baghdad, began with a mortar and rocket attack.

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The Army's C-RAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) system, for example, which is used to protect American bases in Afghanistan, can fire on its own, using its six-barrel gun to blow up incoming mortars.

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In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

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