Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be predetermined, in a similar fashion to a regular naval depth charge.
A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a large-caliber gun is also called a cannonball.
The main charge of the mine was surrounded by roughly 360 steel balls, short steel rods, or scrap metal pieces. These became metal shrapnel that sprayed horizontally from the mine at high velocity. The time between triggering and ignition of the propelling charge varied between 3.9 and 4.5 seconds, depending on the age and condition of the mine.
Round shot or solid shot or a cannonball or simply ball A solid spherical projectile made, in early times, from dressed stone but, by the 17th century, from iron. The most accurate projectile that could be fired by a smooth-bore cannon, used to batter the wooden hulls of opposing ships, forts, or fixed emplacements, and as a long-range anti ...
German airship Schütte Lanz SL2 bombing Warsaw in 1914. Strategic bombing during World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was principally carried out by the United Kingdom and France for the Entente Powers and Germany for the Central Powers.
The devices, developed by British war-time "Dambuster" engineer Barnes Wallis, are similar to the bombs used to destroy German dams during the war.
M1847 ball grenade [8] M1914 ball grenade [8] M1918 anti-tank grenade; Pig iron lighting grenade [8] Bertrand M1915 and M1916 gas grenade [8] Foug M1916 grenade [8] IIIrd army grenade [8] DR M1916 rifle grenade [8] Feuillette rifle grenade [8] Viven-Bessières M1916 rifle grenade; Obstacle clearing explosive charges. Barbed wire destruction rod ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more