Sentence examples for mortar projectiles from inspiring English sources
Remnants of expended shells, examined and photographed by The New York Times, show the rounds to be MAT-120 cargo mortar projectiles, each of which carries and distributes 21 submunitions designed both to kill people and to penetrate light armor.
In Libya, mortar projectiles opened up mid-air, each releasing 21 bomblets, some near a hospital, in what was the latest example of the indiscriminate use of these deadly weapons.
The cannonball is a 10-inch mortar projectile and "probably dates to the period of the American Civil War," came the reply.
First discovered by a New York Times reporter and inspected by HRW researchers, the object photographed is said to be an MAT-120 120mortartar projectile, which opens in mid-air and releases 21 "bomblets" over a wide area.
Human Rights Watch said one of its photographers saw three mortar-launched projectiles explode over a residential area of Misrata, in western Libya.
Portland police said on Twitter that they had closed the park due to "criminal behavior" including the use of "bricks, mortar and other projectiles".
A bio-inspired cellular structural system is developed to contain the radial fracture damage of mortar due to projectile impact through boundary impedance mismatch, while utilizing its adjacent cells as a mutual confining mechanism to improve penetration resistance.
Among the items left behind on the island were practice bombs, mortars and unexploded projectiles, according to a report released several years ago by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in San Juan.
The rebels have often used homemade mortar shells or other projectiles fired from empty natural gas cylinders.
The other projectiles, possibly mortar shells, hit a roof on an outlying building and the ground about 10 yards outside the shrine's main wall.
Two other coalition soldiers were slightly injured on Friday when Iraqi insurgents fired at least two projectiles, possibly mortar shells, at coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
