!!!Raketen

Rockets, in military terminology the term refers to self-propelled 
missiles, powered by liquid or solid fuel; under Article 13 of the 
Austrian State Treaty of 1955, the Austrian Federal Armed Forces are 
prohibited from possessing any rockets. This provision was the Allied 
Forces' reaction to the use of V-weapons by the German wehrmacht 
during World War II. In the 1960s guided missiles for battlefield use 
(with a maximum range of 4 km) were developed; they were primarily 
defensive weapons, which is why the signatories of the State Treaty 
put up little opposition to their introduction into the Austrian armed 
forces. Since 1994 the Austrian Federal Armed Forces have been 
equipped with the Swedish guided missile "Bill" (anti-tank 
defence) and the French "Mistral" (anti-aircraft defence).


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