Sentence examples for caliber shells from inspiring English sources

There were many times you couldn't buy 9mm or 40 caliber shells even for target practice because production couldn't keep up with demand.

Primaguet was forced to retire after she was hit by a 16-inch shell from Massachusetts and a number of smaller caliber shells from the American cruisers and.

They are used to fire large caliber "shells" that contain either shot (a multiple quantity of metal pellets) or a single large slug.

Investigators stated in the warrant that.45 caliber shell casings were recovered in the church.

The prosecutors also said that night-shift workers at the industrial park said they heard multiple gunshots from the area where Lloyd's body was found, and that.45 caliber shell casings found at the scene matched casings found in Hernandez's rental car.

The ships' vitals were well armoured against any caliber shell fired by battleships at the time at ranges where the shell would have to penetrate both the main belt and the sloping deck.

At 21 35 a heavy caliber shell struck the ship on the port-side, punching a hole approximately 40 cm (16 in) wide before exploding against the inner casemate armor.

Mr. Cronkite manned a machine gun until he was "up to my hips in spent.50-caliber shells," he wrote in his memoir.

More than 1,000 big-caliber shells were fired and of these about one-quarter fell around the Puerta del Sol and the Calle Alcala, where the streets are blocked with wreckage.

Three thousand high-caliber shells were lobbed onto the enemy.

At very long ranges, however, the deck armour could be easily penetrated by heavy-caliber shells.