shoulder-fired missile

Shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile, man-portable missile, man-portable missile launcher, man-portable rocket launcher or rocket launcher, among other variants, are common slang terms to describe high-caliber shoulder-mounted weapons systems; that is, weapons firing large, heavy projectiles ("missiles"), typically using the backblast principle, which are small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while held on one's shoulder. The word "missile" in this context is used in its original broad sense of a heavy projectile, and encompasses all shells and rockets, guided or unguided. A more formal variant is simply shoulder-fired weapons system and the like.

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man-portable missile; shoulder-launched missile
missile, 
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IDF soldier firing an M141 Bunker Defeat Munition in Gaza on April 12th, 2025.

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		IDF soldier firing an M141 Bunker Defeat Munition in Gaza on April 12th, 2025.		Commons
commons	image		Operation Gideon's Chariots 3		Commons