Shrapnel shell
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shrapnel-shell-182-11660247
title:
Shrapnel shell
text:
Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike targets individually. They relied almost entirely on the shell's velocity for their lethality. The munition has been obsolete since the end of World War I for anti-personnel use; high-explosive shells superseded it for that role. The functioning and principles behind shrapnel shells are fundame
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Anti-personnel artillery munitions
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell
date created:
2002-02-02T10:59:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T11:32:38Z
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