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A Javelin is a throw weapon, used more commonly in the modern athletics discipline: Javelin throw
Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....
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Javelin may also refer to:






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A Javelin is a throw weapon, used more commonly in the modern athletics discipline: Javelin throw
Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....
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Javelin may also refer to:
  • Javelin (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain
  • Javelin (Marvel Comics), a character in Rom Spaceknight, a comic book series published by Marvel Comics
  • Javelin (rocket)
    Javelin (rocket)

    Javelin was the designation of an American sounding rocket. The four stage Javelin rocket had a payload of around 125 pound , an apogee of 1100 kilometers, a liftoff thrust of 365 kilonewtons , a total mass of 3,385 kilograms , and a core diameter of 580 centimeters ....
    , a former American sounding rocket
  • Javelin (train), a planned high speed train shuttle service in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics
  • Javelin dinghy
    Javelin dinghy

    The Javelin can refer to several different class of boats. The boats are significantly different and only have the same name by coincidence....
    , a sailing dinghy
  • Javelin Software
    Javelin Software

    Javelin Software Corporation was a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts which developed an innovative business model and data analysis product, also called Javelin, and later Javelin Plus....
    , a software company
  • Javelin surface-to-air missile
    Javelin surface-to-air missile

    Javelin is a United Kingdom man-portable surface-to-air missile, formerly used by the British Army and Canadian Forces Land Force Command. It can be fired from the shoulder, or from a dedicated launcher known as Javelin LML?Lightweight Multiple Launcher....
    , a British Army portable missile
  • AMC Javelin
    AMC Javelin

    The AMC Javelin was a ?pony car? built by the American Motors Corporation between 1968 and 1974. It was intended to rival other similar cars of the era such as the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro....
    , an American automobile
  • ATG Javelin
    ATG Javelin

    The ATG Javelin is a small high-speed business jet being developed by the Aviation Technology Group . Planned for FAA certification under 14 CFR part 23, the Javelin has a design resembling a fighter aircraft, an unusual concept for civilian jets....
    , an American-Israeli civil jet aircraft, under development
  • Dennis Javelin
    Dennis Javelin

    The Dennis Javelin is an underfloor-engined bus and coach chassis originally built by Dennis Specialist Vehicles in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 1987 and was a direct replacement of the Dennis Dorchester....
    , a British motorcoach
  • FGM-148 Javelin
    FGM-148 Javelin

    The FGM-148 Javelin is an United States-made man-portable anti-tank guided missile fielded to replace the Dragon antitank missile....
    , an American anti-tank missile
  • Gloster Javelin
    Gloster Javelin

    The Gloster Aircraft Company Javelin was an "all-weather" interceptor aircraft that served with United Kingdom Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s....
    , jet airplane (a 1950s British fighter)
  • HMS Javelin, a Royal Navy destroyer warship
  • Jowett Javelin
    Jowett Javelin

    The Jowett Javelin was an award-winning United Kingdom automobile that was produced from 1947 to 1953 by Jowett of Idle, West Yorkshire, near Bradford....
    , a British automobile
  • Javelin, a fiction robot from Custom Robo
    Custom Robo

    is a science fiction robotic fighting video game franchise developed by Noise and published by Nintendo.The series currently spans five games, and has titles on the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo DS....
     series
  • Javelin, a musical composition, by Michael Torke
    Michael Torke

    Michael Torke ['t??ki] is an United States composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalism, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words....
  • Javelin, a watchmaker


See also

  • Pilum
    Pilum

    The pilum was a heavy javelin commonly used by the Military history of ancient Rome#Roman army in ancient times. It was generally about two meters long overall, consisting of an iron shank about 7 mm in diameter and 60 cm long with pyramidal head....
    , a heavy javelin used as a thrown weapon in the Roman legion