Sentence examples for explosive shells from inspiring English sources

The use of larger guns with more penetrating power and explosive shells made armour plating imperative.

It added that the explosive shells were fired "at military targets within the battle zone".

These guns not only had several times the effective range and accuracy of their predecessors, but they were also capable of firing explosive shells.

"They had the dum-dum," he said, using a vernacular term for an antiaircraft cannon with explosive shells which Serbian forces often fire against buildings.

"The explosive (shells) contain toxic gases that led to choking among civilians," the Aleppo police chief, Issam al-Shilli, told state media.

Officially, Barrett-Jolley and his brother-in-law, first officer Peter Carine, were delivering the arms - 100mm explosive shells - to the government of Chad.

High-explosive shells terrified them, and chlorine gas blinded them as it blinded men.

If a ship is hit by enemy fire, its magazine of high-explosive shells can detonate, with potentially devastating consequences.

The Bradleys returned fire, pouring bursts of 25-millimeter high-explosive shells, essentially miniature grenades, into the buildings.

At the time, the Ministry of Defence held a licence allowing the army to fire high-explosive shells.

After a sharp industrial conflict in 1915-16 - "the Red Clyde" - it supplied the western front with artillery, tanks and aircraft, but above all high-explosive shells.