However, some air-to-air missiles also have fragmentation warheads which spray small shrapnel when they detonate close to a target.
Other patients came and went, with wounds that varied from small shrapnel punctures to multiple amputations.
Her mother, who was also covered with small shrapnel wounds, described what had happened.
He sustained a minor shrapnel wound to his right calf.
Smith sustained a minor shrapnel wound to his right calf.
"So let's get a nice, big explosion and maybe a little shrapnel".
A small piece of shrapnel had pierced his back and apparently killed him, doctors said.
A small piece of shrapnel tore through the armor plating and hit the headset radio microphone that McLain used to communicate with other soldiers.
Other sites had smaller shrapnel or non-UXO related scrap instead, and a few were essentially empty.
The targets buried in 216 cells—some of which are empty include unexploded mortar shells, mortar explosion byproducts like base plates and partial mortars (i.e., stretched-out half-shells), smaller shrapnel, and unrelated metallic clutter; some examples appear in Figure 1.
