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Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed and their weapons, factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces.—James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026 Air-defense systems like Iron Dome rely on a wide range of industrial components beyond the interceptor missiles themselves, including radar platforms, launcher vehicles, control systems, and power infrastructure.—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026 The Orion capsule and the SLS rocket sit on the mobile launcher, an all-in-one ground platform that can transfer the rocket and capsule out to the pad.—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026 Mission teams have secured the rocket's mobile launcher to infrastructure at the pad, connected power and communications linkages and installed the crew's emergency egress system.—Brett Tingley, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for launcher