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This engraving shows a 12-pounder U.S. shrapnel shell c. 1865. It is fitted with a Borman fuse. In the cutaway view, the dark grey is the wall of the shell, the medium grey is sulphur resin, the light grey are the musket balls, and the black is the bursting charge.
The term "shrapnel" is commonly, although incorrectly from a technical standpoint, used to refer to fragments produced by any explosive weapon. However, the shrapnel shell, named for Major General Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery, predates the modern high-explosive shell and operates by an entirely different process. [2]
From left to right: 90 mm shrapnel shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell, 77/14 model – 75 mm high-explosive shell, model 16–75 mm shrapnel shell. US scientists with a full-scale cut-away model of the W48 155 millimeter nuclear artillery shell, a very small tactical nuclear weapon with an explosive yield equivalent to 72 tons of TNT (0. ...
Two-headed bullets (angels) were similar but made of two halves of a ball rather than two balls. [1] Canister shot An anti-personnel projectile which included many small iron round shot or lead musket balls in a metal can, which broke up when fired, scattering the shot throughout the enemy personnel, like a large shotgun. Shrapnel or spherical ...
The most dangerous and the most widely used shrapnel are steel balls 3–7 mm (1 ⁄ 8 – 9 ⁄ 32 in) in diameter. [12] Other shrapnel material can be anything of suitable size and hardness, most often nails, screws, nuts, and thick wire. Shrapnel is responsible for about 90% of all casualties caused by this kind of device.
Former President Trump insisted late Thursday that he was hit by a bullet at a campaign rally earlier this month, after FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested it was still an open question ...
A Ukrainian defense initiative is making steel armor plates to wrap around the control unit of the Patriot battery.
From left to right: 90 mm shrapnel shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell, 77/14 model - 75 mm high-explosive shell, model 16 - 75 mm shrapnel shell. The first time incendiary ammunition was widely used was in World War I, more specifically in 1916.