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...jectiles ([[40 mm grenade|propelled grenades]]), and other weapons with an explosive charge. [[Category:Explosive weapons]] ...

* [[Air gun]], a gun that fires projectiles by means of compressed air or other gases ...], any of a class of artillery pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile ...

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...s without them cracking when they cooled, because the nose and base of the projectiles cooled at different rates, and in fact a larger cavity facilitated a better ...unhardened iron, British doctrine held that only shot (i.e. non-explosive projectiles) were suitable for penetrating the new hardened armour being developed in t ...

{{Short description|Explosive, a mix of RDX and TNT}} ...ple has been dissected to reveal the steel fragmentation sleeve and yellow explosive charge.]] ...

...or in full '''Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight''' is an international [[treaty]] agreed in [[Sain ...| archive-date=2022-08-08}}</ref> In 1867, Russians perfected an improved explosive musketball that would detonate on any impact after being fired, even soft t ...

In the United States, a '''destructive device''' is a type of firearm or explosive device [[Gun control|regulated]] by the [[National Firearms Act]] of 1934, ...which may be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive '''or other propellant''', the barrel or barrels of which have] a [[Gauge ( ...

...' is a family of United States [[land mines]] and [[155 mm]] [[artillery]] projectiles. The mines carried by these projectiles are the [[M67 (mine)|M67]] long-duration [[anti-personnel mine]]s and [[M72 ...

| header = High explosive squash head<br/>(HESH) ...tiles and are well suited to many of the same targets. However, while HESH projectiles are not armour-piercing, they can defeat armored targets by causing [[spall ...

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...rifling is unnecessary or even detrimental to the performance of the usual projectiles. A round containing an explosive payload of over {{convert|0.25|oz|g}} would itself be classified as a destr ...

...ref> Although any objects in [[motion (physics)|motion]] through space are projectiles, they are commonly found in [[warfare]] and [[sport]]s (for example, a thro Some projectiles provide [[propulsion]] during flight by means of a [[rocket engine]] or [[j ...

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{{Short description|Type of explosive reactive vehicle armour}} [[File:Indian Army T-90.jpg|thumb|right|The advanced Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armour on this Indian Army [[T-90]]S is arranged in pairs of plate ...

{{Short description|Explosive device utilizing a tube of long welded metal cylinders}} ...surfaces), the aircraft remained operational. Some anti-aircraft artillery projectiles were designed to fragment into long, thin pieces in an attempt to inflict d ...

| image = [[file:Armor-piercing capped ballistic-capped high-explosive tracer example.png|frameless|upright]] # Explosive charge ...

...also GBU-61), an anti-land-mine system consisting of chemical or explosive projectiles ...

<!-- Explosive specifications --> ...especially suitable for the destruction of parked aircraft or vehicles. An explosive charge was wrapped in fabric and sewn to an impact fuse that detonated on s ...

...ny of a class of [[artillery]] pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile (such as one containing [[dynamite]]). Dynamite guns were in use ...ellant]] charge and the sudden acceleration of the shell would set off the explosive in the barrel of the weapon. By using compressed air, the dynamite gun was ...

{{Short description|High explosive artillery round}} | caption = M107 projectiles, fitted with [[fuze]]s.<!-- The correct spelling is "FUZE", not "fuse". Cli ...