Sentence examples for range penetration from inspiring English sources
These converging attacks are to be facilitated by the employment of long range penetration groups in front of each column similar to those employed by Brigadier Wingate last spring.
They were the idea of the unconventional army officer, Lieutenant-Colonel – later Brigadier – Orde Wingate, who believed Long Range Penetration (LRP) groups operating behind enemy lines could inflict severe damage on the Japanese.
"Long-range penetration units" were sent to Burma to sabotage Japanese supply and communications lines.
Brigadier General Orde Wingate's "Chindits," which were long-range penetration groups depending on supplies from the air, crossed the Chindwin River in February 1943 and were initially successful in severing Japanese communications on the railroad between Mandalay and Myitkyina.
Under specific deformation conditions, a connected network of open channels, which promotes long-range penetration of a liquid radiotracer solution, was shown to form during the severe deformation.
Since these particles have relatively low kinetic energies, short-range penetration, but concomitantly high linear energy transfer (LET), they can release high-energy doses (106−109 cGy) within an extremely small volume around the decay site of dimensions of several cubic nanometers.
The difference between range and penetration distances results from scattering encountered by the particle along its path.
The corresponding trajectories are straight, and the difference between range and penetration distance is, for most purposes, negligible.
High-energy galactic cosmic rays primarily protons have a range of penetration on the order of a few metres in meteoroidal material.
Surface degradation is mainly caused by meteoroids in the 0.01 to 0.1 mm range, hull penetration by meteoroids above 1 mm, and plasma discharge by meteoroids between 1 and 10 μm.
In this temperature range, the penetration depth reached by the implanted ions is not only exclusively ballistic (i.e., kinetic energy dependent), but diffusion effects also play a decisive role.
