Sentence examples for firing a projectile from inspiring English sources
I had imagined firing a projectile that was like the custard pie of silent movies.
The goal of this study was to develop a nonfatal porcine model of penetrating craniocerebral gunshot wound (PCGW) by firing a projectile in live swine to induce PCGW in such a realistic manner as to reconstruct their physical characteristics.
The criminal masterminds also printed it out of PLA plastic, which is not ideal for heavy-duty use, let alone firing a projectile.
The effects company that supplied the guns, Jauchem & Meeh Inc., made them tamper resistant and unable to fire a projectile.
Tonight, a Japanese spacecraft completed a touchdown on the surface of an asteroid, where it fired a projectile at the rock's surface rock.
To make small enough fragments, the spacecraft fired a projectile made of the metal tantalum — basically a bullet — at the asteroid's surface.
The difference in the two situations results from the fact that momentum (the product of mass and velocity) is conserved: the momentum of the system that fires a projectile must be opposite and equal to that of the projectile.
The shaped charge explosion fires a projectile "at a very rapid rate, sufficient to penetrate certain levels of armor," General Conway said, adding that weapons employing shaped charges had caused American casualties in the last two months.
If a spacecraft flying at a low altitude were to fire a projectile into the lunar surface, a second trailing spacecraft could capture material from the resulting cloud of ejecta.
After a closer look at data radioed home by Hayabusa, however, the JAXA scientists could not confirm whether the spacecraft had fired a projectile into the surface of the asteroid.
