Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions that carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them...

However, the shrapnel shell, named for Major General Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery, predates the modern high-explosive shell and operates...

Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell....

casing, so the casing of later shells only needed to contain the munition, and, if desired, to produce shrapnel. The term "shell," however, was sufficiently...

the existing shrapnel shell so a new Mark 2 shrapnel shell was introduced to ensure ballistic compatibility. The original shrapnel shells had a relatively...

Look up shrapnel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shrapnel may refer to: Shrapnel shell, explosive artillery munitions, generally for anti-personnel...

time-fused shrapnel shells on enemy troops advancing in the open. After 1915 and the onset of trench warfare, impact-detonated high-explosive shells prevailed...

of World War I. Modern shells, though sometimes called "shrapnel shells", actually produce fragments and splinters, not shrapnel. Air bursts were used...

tin or brass container, possibly guided by a wooden sabot. The later shrapnel shell contained similarly smaller projectiles, and used a timed bursting charge...

60 pounder ammunition scale was 70% shrapnel and 30% HE. The standard shell was 2 CRH, but in 1917 an 8 CRH shell was adopted. Subsequently, after the...

688 explosive shells and 288 shrapnel shells. By June 1915, the ratio further evolved to 5,391 explosive shells and 585 shrapnel shells. Artillery fired...

Palliser Shell Mk I with Automatic Gas-Check RML 12.5in Studless Common Shell Mk I with Automatic Gas-Check RML 12.5in Studless Shrapnel Shell Mk I with...

Navy instead of wooden ones. At this time fuzes were used with shrapnel, common shell (filled with explosive) and grenades. All British fuzes were prepared...

recoilless anti-tank guns.[citation needed] Shrapnel shells—named for the inventor, British artillery officer Henry Shrapnel—were developed from canister during...

Grapeshot Lead shot Snake shot Shotgun slug Shrapnel shell Rifle cartridge Siler, Wes. "What's Inside A Shotgun Shell And Why". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2018-01-20...

had adopted Douglas's new system. The shrapnel shell was developed in 1784, by Major General Henry Shrapnel of the Royal Artillery. Canister shot was...

5-pound (5.7 kg) shrapnel shell at 2,500 ft/s (760 m/s) caused excessive barrel wear and was unstable in flight. The 1916 16-pound (7.3 kg) shell at 2,000 ft/s...

Case-shot, a type of anti-personnel canister ammunition similar to a shrapnel shell Case study, a research method involving in-depth examination of an individual...

San-shiki-dan (三式弾, "Type 3 shell") was a World War II-era combined shrapnel and incendiary anti-aircraft round used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They...

until the 1960s. Named after Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (who invented the shrapnel shell and was for some years based at the nearby Royal Arsenal)...

a line of Parrott rifles, the 10-pounder was capable of firing shell, shrapnel shell (case shot), canister shot, or solid shot. It was adopted by the...

at an elevation of 5°. The 20-pounder Parrott rifle could fire shell, shrapnel shell (case shot), canister shot, and more rarely solid shot. In spite...

were not adopted by NATO militaries. Unlike a shell narrower than the gun's bore with a sabot, ERFB shells use the full bore, permitting a larger payload...

suggests that he came very near to losing his life when a fragment from a shrapnel shell crashed through his drum, knocking him unconscious and that subsequently...

Shrapnel (1761–1842), inventor of the Shrapnel shell, was born at Midway Manor which remained with the Shrapnel family until 1871. The house had stone cannonballs...

Studless Palliser shell, 410 lb, 1886 Studless Common shell, 410 lb, 1886 Studless Shrapnel shell, 410 lb, 1886 4 guns submerged near the remains of HMVS...

contain an incendiary charge intended to ignite explosives within the shell. Although not intended to start fires, tracer bullets can have a mild incendiary...

(usually black powder) is a pyrotechnic mixture placed in a shell which is ignited when the shell reaches the desired height in order to create an explosion...

These were then referred to as the "heavy" and "light" shell respectively. A 100 lb shrapnel shell was also available. It was phased out and replaced by...

soft metal near the base of an artillery shell, often made of gilding metal, copper, or lead. When the shell is fired, the pressure of the propellant...