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It is an indescribable noise. First a dark rumble, heard from miles away, then a tail of explosions. They compared it to an alien scream, to the whirlwind of a typhoon, coming to evoke “the trumpets of the apocalypse”. But for many soldiers the sound of the C-Ram Centurion, the anti-missile system that went into action yesterday in Kabul to shoot down the rockets launched by Isis-K against the airport, means salvation.
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