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Shrapnel s**** were anti-personnel
artillery munitions that
carried many
individual bullets close to a
target area and then
ejected them to
allow them...
- However, the
shrapnel s****,
named for
Major General Henry Shrapnel of the
British Royal Artillery,
predates the
modern high-explosive
s**** and operates...
- casing, so the
casing of
later s**** only
needs to
contain the munition, and, if desired, to
produce shrapnel. The term "
s****," however, was sufficiently...
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Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13
March 1842) was a
British Army
officer whose name has
entered the
English language as the
inventor of the
shrapnel s****....
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shrapnel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Shrapnel may
refer to:
Shrapnel s****,
explosive artillery munitions,
generally for anti-personnel...
- the
existing shrapnel s**** so a new Mark 2
shrapnel s**** was
introduced to
ensure ballistic compatibility. The
original shrapnel s**** had a relatively...
- time-fused
shrapnel s**** on
enemy troops advancing in the open.
After 1915 and the
onset of
trench warfare, impact-detonated high-explosive
s**** prevailed...
- tin or br**** container,
possibly guided by a
wooden sabot. The
later shrapnel s**** contained similarly smaller projectiles, and used a
timed bursting charge...
- of
World War I.
Modern s****,
though sometimes called "
shrapnel s****",
actually produce fragments and splinters, not
shrapnel. Air
bursts were used...
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contain an
incendiary charge intended to
ignite explosives within the
s****.
Although not
intended to
start fires,
tracer bullets can have a mild incendiary...
