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Similarly to SLAP rounds (saboted light armor penetrator) which get their armor-piercing ability from the propulsion of a 7.62 mm tungsten heavy alloy bullet from a 12.7 mm barrel (.50 caliber) using a sabot with much more energy than is usually possible from a 7.62 mm round, HEIAP munitions utilize a similar theory with an added explosive ...
In warfare, high-explosive incendiary (HEI) is a type of ammunition specially designed to impart energy and therefore damage to its target in one or both of two ways: via a high-explosive charge and/or via its incendiary (fire-causing) effects. Each round has both capabilities. HEI ammunition is fused either mechanically or chemically. The ...
Incendiary rounds like Dragon's Breath shells are illegal in New Jersey, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Because their vapor detectors indicated an explosive atmosphere, the two were ordered to evacuate. The team was then ordered to reenter the silo to turn on an exhaust fan. Livingston reentered the silo to carry out the order and shortly thereafter, at about 3:00 a.m., the hypergolic fuel exploded—likely due to arcing in the exhaust fan. The ...
Such shootings are the type of incidents law enforcement worry about with the rise in Glock switches, said Daryl McCormick, special agent in charge of the ATF's Columbus Field Division.
An Alabama man was arrested and indicted this week on charges that he detonat ed an explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general's office in late February, the U.S. Justice Department ...
The Federal Explosives Act Amendment of 1941 appended the 1917 public law revitalizing the federal scope for the perils of World War II. [5] On July 25, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed a Senate Joint Resolution ceasing provisions of the Federal Explosives Act with the cessation of the European theatre of World War II and Pacific War .
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