armor-piercing
(of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.
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How to use armor-piercing in a sentence
Evidence of execution-style gunshots with armor-piercing bullets has emerged.
Ukraine Is On the Verge Of War And Putin Is To Blame | Michael Weiss | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFurthermore, the cannon and armor-piercing bombs of Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft posed a mortal peril for the German tanks.
WWII’s Greatest Battle: How Kursk Changed the War | Andrew Roberts | August 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd nobody needs a 30-round clip of high-velocity, steel-jacketed, armor-piercing ordnance for target shooting.
Equally interesting was the construction of the armor-piercing bullet.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellThen an artillery officer said, dreamily, "The armor-piercing shells the railroad guns use have lead caps."
The Onslaught from Rigel | Fletcher Pratt
She had rounded the Moscow's stern, raking her as she came, and sending armor-piercing shells through her citadel.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea | Morgan RobertsonThus, the proportions of the shrapnel gun will be intermediate between those of the armor-piercing gun and the shell gun.
Hence an armor-piercing gun should have a large chamber and a comparatively small bore of great length.
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