- A
bourrelet is a
portion of an
elongated artillery projectile that is used in
conjunction with the projectile's
driving band, or
rotating band, to stabilize...
- p. 49. Il y
avait aussi, à
celte époque, des
escoffions dits
bourrelets. Le
bourrelet se
divisait en deux
parties exactement semblables et distinctes...
- both were now
plain and
undecorated by
cutting or
dagging at the edges.
Bourrelets could be very large, or
quite modest; some were
clearly made
round a hollow...
- 2007 at the
Wayback Machine, L'Express, 22
August 2007 (in French) Un
bourrelet relance le débat sur la
retouche d'images
Archived 30
September 2007 at...
- its flight. The s**** is
stabilized for yaw in the
barrel by a
smaller bourrelet band near the
front of the projectile. This band
keeps the projectile...
-
increases in
larger calibers.
Steel artillery projectiles may have a
forward bourrelet section machined to a
diameter slightly smaller than the
original land-to-land...
- (s) of
prevailing winds, are
known as lunettes, source-bordering dunes,
bourrelets and clay dunes. They may be
composed of clay, silt, sand, or gypsum, eroded...
- at the
front for a nose fuze and at the rear for a
finned tail. Five
bourrelets were
machined around the
middle of the
projectile that
acted as a gas...
- they wear
similar chaperons with the
cornette tightly bound around the
bourrelet. The
judges in the
Ghent panel became the
basis for a
number of later...
-
Desensitized high
explosive bursting charge • 4. – Base-fuse (set with
delay to
explode inside the target) • 5. –
Bourrelet (front) and
driving band (rear)...
