Sentence examples for a delayed fuse from inspiring English sources

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U.S. forces selected a GPS-guided, 500-pound bomb with a delayed fuse to eliminate the snipers.

We'd dropped a five-hundred-pound laser-guided bomb with a delayed fuse on a group of men standing in a circle in a dusty field.

But the missile, which has a delayed fuse to increase damage to large vessels like aircraft carriers, ripped through the small boat without exploding, he said.

On 30 March at 16 30 the torpedoes from MTB 74, which were on a delayed fuse setting, exploded at the old entrance into the basin.

They then fire a whale bomb from a heavy rifle - a pointed brass tube filled with explosives and a delayed fuse so that it will detonate after burying itself deep in the whale's centre, the shrapnel destroying the heart or other vital organs.

The US has reportedly also added new Hellfire variants to its drone arsenal: specialized missiles for attacking vehicles, missiles with a delayed fuse designed to smash through walls and detonate inside buildings, and anti-personnel missiles with a metal sleeve that splinters upon detonation.

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It was a left hook to the body that dropped him, a bit of delayed fuse.

Having covered the bomb in glue, a non-sticky handle was required; in the handle, a delay fuse ignited by releasing a sprung lever so that a five second time delay starts as the grenade leaves the thrower's hand (just like the levers found on a conventional Mills bomb type hand grenade).

For six Taliban wallowing in a ditch, I figured that a pair of thousand-pound bombs, with delayed fuses, ought to do the trick.

fragmentation high explosive, with a delayed action fuse.

The missile warhead is filled with a penetrating blast/fragmentation high explosive, with a delayed action fuse.

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