armour-piercing shell

His chief responsibility was to improve the hardening of armour-piercing shells.

It was also equipped with armour-piercing shells for direct fire against armoured targets.

Armour-piercing shells won't make any difference to it.

The hull shows extensive damage from both armour-piercing shells and torpedoes.

They were impervious to fire as well as armour-piercing shells and bullets!

British armour-piercing shells exploded outside the German armour rather than penetrating and exploding within.

German armour-piercing shells were far more effective than the British shells, which often failed to penetrate heavy armour.

As a result it proved useful as the main explosive filling in armour-piercing shells and aerial bombs.

'Armour-piercing shells, laddie, designed to go through two inches of steel plate in a tank before they explode.'

Mr President, the Commission's attention was given to the use of depleted uranium in armour-piercing shells as long ago as 1993.

In the engagement, Bismarck had fired 93 armour-piercing shells and had been hit by three shells in return.

The shell was fired at the submarine either on the surface or submerged - hence it had attributes of both armour-piercing shell and depth charge.

He collapsed onto her, they met like an armour-piercing shell going up the spout, he flipped his hands behind her head and kissed her fiercely.

The army has moved into Sutton, and set up defences in the middle of the village street, all loaded up with armour-piercing shells, grenades and the lot.

Tungsten carbide was a critical war commodity with numerous applications such as the production of heat-resistant steel, armour plate, armour-piercing shells and high-speed cutting tools.

Another delay was the modification of the armour plates with tongue and groove joints to lock the plates together and increase their resistance to armour-piercing shells.

At the Battle of Jutland many British armour-piercing shells either did not pierce German armour, or did so but failed to explode, because of this failing.

In a report delivered to Congress and the White House, the Fund says the contamination came from about 4,300 rounds of armour-piercing shells fired from tanks and aircraft.

Because of a crew error, the British battleship HMS Malaya fired a 381 mm armour-piercing shell into the south-eastern corner of the nave.

Two of the shells landed short, striking the water close to the ship, but at least one of the 38 cm armour-piercing shells struck Hood and penetrated her thin deck armor.

In March, 1917 he was appointed DNO, where he formed a committee to design and produce a new type of armour-piercing shell, as the existing type had proved woefully unreliable.

Sloping an armour plate makes it harder to penetrate for antitank-weapons, such as armour-piercing shells (kinetic energy penetrators) and rockets, if they take a more or less horizontal path to their target, as is often the case.

Something moved in the hatchway she loosed the rest of the pistol's rounds into the hatchway itself, the noise changing from the sharp crack of the Armour-Piercing shells to the whine of the flechette rounds.

For Graham a gun was a series of mathematical expressions resolved in such a way as to enable one man, by touching a button, to project an armour-piercing shell so that it hit a target several miles away plumb in the middle.

Though the city itself was speedily taken, the forts held out stubbornly, obliging the attackers to bring up heavy howitzers, whose huge, destructive, armour-piercing shells swiftly demolished the concrete and steel fortifications and turned them into death traps.