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قاذفات أنبوبية

English translation: Tube launchers

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Arabic term or phrase:قاذفات أنبوبية
English translation:Tube launchers
Entered by: Sami Khamou

12:51 May 8, 2004
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Military / Defense / Aviation
Arabic term or phrase: قاذفات أنبوبية
These are bomber aircraft, but I need the exact name in English. They are definitely not "Pipe bombers" :-)

Thank you in advance, all those who are sharing their invaluable knowledge with me.
Sam Berner
Australia
Local time: 05:55
Tube Launchers
Explanation:
Tube Launchers
or just
Launchers
These are tube launchers installed on military aircrafts.

For further info please view the following link:
http://www.bristol.ca/Launchers.html

The term قاذفات أنبوبية is also used for hand held tubal launchers.
Here's an example:
قام المجاهدون في سرية محمد القاسم وعمر المختار من تنظيم الناصر صلاح الدين الساعة 7:30 مساء بقصف معسكر(الفدائيين سابقا مقر لقوات الاحتلال حاليا) في محافظة ديالى بمدافع هاون وقاذفات انبوبية

For for further info please view the following link:
http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/arabic/0404/salahaldin_0104...
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Sami Khamou
Local time: 15:55
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Thank you again - you are invaluable
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3Tube Launchers
Sami Khamou
5"Gunships" with side-mounted rocket launchers
Stephen Franke
3Bombers
Ahmed Ismail
3 -1Tube Bombs - Tube Mortars
Randa Farhat


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Bombers


Explanation:
I believe there is nothing called:
قاذفة أنبوبية

Maybe it is a mistranslation.

Some examples: B-52, B1-B, B-2, F-117


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Note added at 2004-05-08 14:54:47 (GMT)
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The Mortar bombers are similar to bazookas...it is a kind of gun or canon...not an aircraft.



Ahmed Ismail
Egypt
Local time: 21:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
قاذفات أنبوبية
Tube Bombs - Tube Mortars


Explanation:
or: Fission Bombs
or: Mortar Tubes

Randa Farhat
Lebanon
Local time: 22:55
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Ahmed Ismail: The question is about Bomber aircrafts NOT bombs!
46 mins
  -> change bomb to bombers
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
قاذفات أنبوبية
Tube Launchers


Explanation:
Tube Launchers
or just
Launchers
These are tube launchers installed on military aircrafts.

For further info please view the following link:
http://www.bristol.ca/Launchers.html

The term قاذفات أنبوبية is also used for hand held tubal launchers.
Here's an example:
قام المجاهدون في سرية محمد القاسم وعمر المختار من تنظيم الناصر صلاح الدين الساعة 7:30 مساء بقصف معسكر(الفدائيين سابقا مقر لقوات الاحتلال حاليا) في محافظة ديالى بمدافع هاون وقاذفات انبوبية

For for further info please view the following link:
http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/arabic/0404/salahaldin_0104...

Sami Khamou
Local time: 15:55
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 15
Grading comment
Thank you again - you are invaluable

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Melanie Nassar
1 hr
  -> Thank Armaat
agree  Dr. Wathib Jabouri: http://www.geocities.com/lastdingo/aviation/r4m.htm
7 hrs
  -> Thank you Dr. Wathib
agree  AhmedAMS
10 days
  -> Thank you Ahmed
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
"Gunships" with side-mounted rocket launchers


Explanation:
Greetings.

Perhaps an accurate equivalent term in English is "gunships" or "attack helicopters."

The category of "gunship" refers to military helicopter aircraft that attack ground targets by firing with various on-board or mounted weapons.

Those weapons usually include:

o internal or side-mounted machine guns or cannon

o side-mounted rockets that are carried and launched from inside round tubular containers (hence the reference in the source term to tubular or pipe-like)

o side-mounted dispenser of small bombs (bomblets) or other explosive munitions

Examples include:

o US Army UH-1N 'Cobra' attack helicopter

o Soviet Mi-24 (NATO designation of "Hind" attack helicopter

o Soviet Mi-8 (NATO: Hip) assault helicopter

Most likely the reference is to helicopter gunships because jet aircraft cannot fly safely, or attack ground targets effectively, with rockets or missiles carried inside tubular launchers mounted on the fuselage or on wing stations (also called "hard mounting points").

HTH.

Khair, in sha' Allah


    Combat experience and work with air assault units
Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 12:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36
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