Artillery shell'sll, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.
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Artillery shell'sll, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.
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The term "Artillery shell, " however, was sufficiently established that it remained as the term for such munitions.
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Artillery shell'slls were used in combat by the Republic of Venice at Jadra in 1376.
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Artillery shell promoted its use as a blasting explosive and sold manufacturing rights to the Austrian Empire.
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The Artillery shell was filled with molten iron and was intended to break up on impact with an enemy ship, splashing molten iron on the target.
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Artillery shell'slls filled with poison gas were used from 1917 onwards.
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The Artillery shell was correspondingly slightly longer than the shot to compensate for the lighter cavity.
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Percentage of Artillery shell weight taken up by its explosive fill increased steadily throughout the 20th Century.
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The key requirement for increasing the HE content without increasing Artillery shell weight was to reduce the thickness of Artillery shell walls, which required improvements in high tensile steel.
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Proper detonation of a lyddite Artillery shell would show black to grey smoke, or white from the steam of a water detonation.
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Mine Artillery shell concept was invented by the Germans in the Second World War primarily for use in aircraft guns intended to be fired at opposing aircraft.
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The Artillery shell body dropped to the ground mostly intact and the bullets continued in an expanding cone shape before striking the ground over an area approximately 250 yards × 30 yards in the case of the US 3-inch Artillery shell.
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Carrier Artillery shell is simply a hollow carrier equipped with a fuze that ejects the contents at a calculated time.
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SMArt 155, an anti-armor Artillery shell containing two autonomous, sensor-guided, fire-and-forget submunitions.
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Fuze of a Artillery shell has to keep the Artillery shell safe from accidental functioning during storage, due to rough handling, fire, etc.
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