A 12-tube rocket launcher.C.J. Chivers/The New York Times
Mao's Rockets And The Eastern Afghan Border War, Part I -- New York Times
Traveling at Mach 1.1, a 107-millimeter rocket gives little time for those along its path to react. Even if a counterbattery radar picks up an incoming rocket in flight, the warning might sound only a moment before the arrival of the rocket itself, barely allowing time to flinch. By then the rocket has either passed by or it has struck, delivering its warhead's explosive blast.
This year American and Afghan soldiers along one part of Afghanistan's uncertain border with Pakistan have become expert at these sounds and familiar with their perils. The rate and the severity of rocket attacks against outposts in eastern Paktika Province have spiked since midspring, making 107-millimeter rocket attacks, on [...]
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