They are no more horrific than a body's being dismembered by a rocket grenade.
And when the rocket grenades went in there, it was the final devastation for the base.
This was a rocket grenade fitted over the muzzle in the fashion of a rifle grenade.
Lord Justice Higgins also had to move house after his home was attacked with rocket grenades and guns in 1987.
I got separated from the others when those rocket grenades came flying in.
"A lot of heavy stuff turned up, from big machine guns to rocket grenades," he said.
Another rocket grenade detonated against the house and plaster dusted down from overhead.
An Afghan guerrilla has just fired a rocket grenade and missed.
Several Schlinal rocket grenades exploded nearly at once in the open.
We could see the muzzle-flashes and the rocket grenades.