At the same time, pro-Government militiamen with rifles and shoulder-launched rockets darted door to door through apartment blocks and fired into the Serb-occupied hills north and south of town.

Still, the training needed to wield a shoulder-launched rocket is not all that extensive.

The rebels, armed with mortars and shoulder-launched rockets, held the city's airport for more than two hours before being driven off by better-armed Government soldiers.

Along the forested ridge northwest of the city, a brief spout of flame and a flicker of contrail mark a shoulder-launched rocket coming directly toward the Hegemony skimmer.

They fought back with heavy machine-gun fire and shoulder-launched rockets, but the ghostly shapes of the helicopters were too far away.

Among the weapons of greatest concern are SA-7 Grails, the shoulder-launched rockets that can shoot down helicopters, and 122-millimeter rockets, which could be used against American forces.

He knew, though, that no small arms, not even his heaviest shoulder-launched rockets, would be much use against an armored starship.

But they were deadly, suddenly brandishing Kalashnikov rifles and shoulder-launched rockets and other weapons.

Witnesses said several men with automatic rifles and shoulder-launched rockets jumped from the truck, opening fire and killing the guards.

Greenpeace charges that carrying the plutonium on a long overland trip constitutes a "considerable" risk, and that the cargo's containers could be blasted open with shoulder-launched rockets.