Sentence examples for detonated on impact from inspiring English sources
The 4x4 he was driving detonated on impact, tearing lumps off the checkpoint in Dafniya on the western approach to the coastal city of Misrata, and gouging a crater in the road.
In turn she concentrated most of her fire upon the battleships and although both ships were only lightly damaged by the Japanese shells which generally failed to penetrate any armour and detonated on impact.
The conventional high explosive (HE) components of four 1.1 megaton B28FI model hydrogen bombs detonated on impact, spreading radioactive material over a large area in a manner similar to a dirty bomb.
From the ground you might expect an attack to look a bit like a colony of seagulls descending on your bag of chips, if all the birds were packed with explosives and detonated on impact.
The two unexploded B-28 FI 1.45-megaton-range nuclear bombs on the B-52 were eventually recovered; the conventional explosives of two more bombs detonated on impact, with serious dispersion of both plutonium and uranium, but without triggering a nuclear explosion.
Cluster bombs burst open in mid-air and release bomblets that are supposed to detonate on impact, but many of the ones fired on Lebanon did not explode, lying on the ground instead like landmines with the potential to blow up at any time.
Each bomblet detonates on impact, spraying shrapnel in all directions and killing, maiming and destroying indiscriminately.
They descend by parachute and, if they hit on or near a tank, they detonate on impact; if they miss, they lie on the ground as mines and detonate when a tank approaches.
Moreover, in Libya, Yemen, Syria and eastern Ukraine, contamination by unexploded munitions increases every day, with bombs and shells failing to detonate on impact at a very high rate.
A small explosive charge at the front would detonate on impact and rupture the skin, dispersing the chemicals inside.
Most of the bombs exploded, but up to 15percentt were duds and failed to detonate on impact.
