shaped charge
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"It was a pressure plate, IED with like hacksaw blades, and it shot the amount of explosives, had a piece of steel over top of it. So it creates a big shaped charge. And it just sliced right through the aluminum underbelly of this Amphibious Assault Vehicle hitting all the jet fuel, hitting all the 50,000 rounds of ammunition."
From Fox News
The first Hellfires were designed as tank busters with a powerful shaped charge, used in Afghanistan for which they were regarded as not entirely suitable.
From The Guardian
Other armor options include protection against shaped charge warheads.
From Fox News
My extremely uneducated guess is that some sort of shaped charge hit that sign.
From New York Times
Russell said it took him five minutes of Internet searching to figure out how a very small robot — a microbot — could use a shaped charge to “blow holes in people’s heads.”
From Washington Post
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