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armor-piercing
[ ahr-mer-peer-sing ]
adjective
- (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.
Word History and Origins
Origin of armor-piercing1
Example Sentences
Evidence of execution-style gunshots with armor-piercing bullets has emerged.
Furthermore, the cannon and armor-piercing bombs of Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft posed a mortal peril for the German tanks.
And nobody needs a 30-round clip of high-velocity, steel-jacketed, armor-piercing ordnance for target shooting.
Equally interesting was the construction of the armor-piercing bullet.
Then an artillery officer said, dreamily, "The armor-piercing shells the railroad guns use have lead caps."
She had rounded the Moscow's stern, raking her as she came, and sending armor-piercing shells through her citadel.
Thus, the proportions of the shrapnel gun will be intermediate between those of the armor-piercing gun and the shell gun.
Hence an armor-piercing gun should have a large chamber and a comparatively small bore of great length.
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