protugradne rakete

English translation: anti-hail rockets

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Croatian term or phrase:protugradne rakete
English translation:anti-hail rockets
Entered by: bjuric2

15:39 Apr 24, 2005
Croatian to English translations [PRO]
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Croatian term or phrase: protugradne rakete
Pyrotechnical articles are article used for entertainment, commercial or other purposes, containing components whose sagorijevanje or explosion serves to achieve the effect of fire, light, warmth, sound or smoke and includes protugradne rakete.
bjuric2
Local time: 18:05
anti-hail rockets
Explanation:
I think we've had this before. This is some device which only seems to exist in former Eastern bloc countries! If you do a search you'll see where it comes up. It is fired into clouds which appear to threaten hail, and therefore crops, and causes them to precipitate as rain, or something!

e.g.

http://www.nato.int/sfor/trans/2003/t030610a.htm

"...Major James Billings - SFOR
Good morning. I have one point this morning pertaining to SFOR’s position regarding the employment of anti-hail rockets. I would like to take this opportunity to emphasise that employment of rockets for hail reduction is a decision for the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)..."
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Mark Daniels
Local time: 18:05
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5 +2anti-hail rockets
Mark Daniels
4rockets for hailstorm defense
Ivan Lajnvas


  

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anti-hail rockets


Explanation:
I think we've had this before. This is some device which only seems to exist in former Eastern bloc countries! If you do a search you'll see where it comes up. It is fired into clouds which appear to threaten hail, and therefore crops, and causes them to precipitate as rain, or something!

e.g.

http://www.nato.int/sfor/trans/2003/t030610a.htm

"...Major James Billings - SFOR
Good morning. I have one point this morning pertaining to SFOR’s position regarding the employment of anti-hail rockets. I would like to take this opportunity to emphasise that employment of rockets for hail reduction is a decision for the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)..."


    Reference: http://www.rti.chuvashia.com/komplex.htm
Mark Daniels
Local time: 18:05
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PRO pts in category: 4
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agree  mac9lxx (X)
1 hr

agree  Ljiljana Malovic: anti-hail je OK, ali prekontrolisite recenicu: "pyrotechnical articles are... i onda dolazi mnozina - articles, a ne jednina kao sto u vasem primjeru stoji. Sagorijevanje je combustion, to nije prevedeno. "...whose combustion or explosion..."
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rockets for hailstorm defense


Explanation:
jel ti možda spretnije ovako?

Ivan Lajnvas
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Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Native in CroatianCroatian
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