Wiktionary
a. Referring to devices (typically munitions) intended to pierce armor alt. Referring to devices (typically munitions) intended to pierce armor
Usage examples of "armor-piercing".
The twenties come in HE, armor-piercing, and smoke, and any of them can be detonated as an airburst up to about a mile.
At the biennial European Defense Exposition, which opened its doors to invitation-only customers on Monday, you can try out and buy Iranian tanks, French armor-piercing rockets, and Chilean antitank mines.
They had found some nuclear artillery shells and had converted their noses over to the bazooka noses, and now they had armor-piercing, nuclear bazookas.
Other compounds at Log Alpha had shells, rockets, mortars, caissons of machine-gun rounds, armor-piercing antitank warheads, and grenades.
Approximately fifteen metric tonnes mix of high explosives, armor-piercing kinetic projectiles and some small number of armor ablatives,” the Bolo said.
Approximately fifteen metric tonnes mix of high explosives, armor-piercing kinetic projectiles and some small number of armor ablatives," the Bolo said.
The turret had taken at least a dozen direct hits, most of them from armor-piercing shot.
That would be all they needed, a hail of armor-piercing shot at extreme range from their own guns.
Natural alloy or synthetics, ceramics or human flesh, it vaporized explosively, literally blowing itself apart with fearsome force, and some of the first salvo's targets' sister pods succumbed to proximity damage as fragments blasted into them like old-fashioned prespace armor-piercing shot.
And someday soon, the Irish trespassers just might find themselves under attack by Spaniards and indios armed with short, armor-piercing bows and arrows.
His goat's-foot lever lay nearby, along with a heavy armor-piercing quarrel.
They was using armor-piercing shells with time-delay fuzes, so the one that hit us didn't go off till it was in the sea.
A donkey followed, loaded down with cases of 5-0 Chinese armor-piercing bullets.
More got in behind the squad, firing into its rear, and men and women who'd survived the fury of a nuclear warhead died as armor-piercing rounds riddled their zoots.
Unfortunately, the way we had to get into the base precluded that, so the two of us settled for using pistols that carried Teflon-coated, armor-piercing bullets.