shaped charge
Americannoun
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My extremely uneducated guess is that some sort of shaped charge hit that sign.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2016
Finally, Leonard Wolfson, a civilian consultant to the Navy, suggested using more explosives to defeat the bomb, with a linear shaped charge.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2014
Just behind the nose is a shaped charge weighing 660 grams and consisting of a RDX/TNT mixture, which is detonated by an ADTS-583 impact fuze.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2012
Long familiar to ordnance men, the shaped charge* is a mass of high explosive with a conical cavity in its front end; the cavity is lined with a cone of thin metal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, as time ran out, we would place a charge in the hole—a shaped charge, as it is called—which would drive the hole most of the way to the magma.
From The Flaming Mountain by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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