• Exploding ammunition or spiked ammunition is an ammunition and other ordnance that is sabotaged (propellant replaced) and left behind for enemy forces...
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    incendiary from igniting and the high explosive from detonating. Exploding ammunition was used by both Allied and German forces during World War II. "PGU-27A/B...
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    charge which is activated by the fuze, which causes the ammunition effect (e.g., the exploding of an artillery round). The cartridge is the container that...
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    anyone near the exploding weapon. A single sabotaged cartridge or shell would then be placed in a magazine or case of good ammunition to avoid revealing...
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    (CV-67) on the night of 22 November 1975. Belknap was ablaze with exploding ammunition from the storage lockers for her two 3-inch guns, but the crew of...
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    Incendiary ammunition is a type of ammunition that contains a chemical that, upon hitting a hard obstacle, has the characteristic of causing fire/setting...
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    separate ammunition stowage from the crew compartment with armoured blast doors, and provided "blow-out" panels to redirect the force and fire of exploding ammunition...
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  • unfired weapon ammunition exploding prematurely due to heat in the surrounding environment. The term is used both for detonation of ammunition not loaded...
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    the fire. To starve the fire of fuel, he threw burning debris and exploding ammunition through the large holes that the fire had melted in the fuselage...
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    Belknap's port side, and evacuated the injured while fragments from exploding ammunition showered down upon her weather decks. The frigate Pharris closed...
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    pain from his burns, he bravely ran back through the flames and exploding ammunition to ensure that no Marines had been left behind in the burning vehicle...
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    Tracer ammunition, or tracers, are bullets or cannon-caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. When fired, the...
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    explosive rifle projectiles. This prohibition has evolved into a ban on exploding ammunition under customary international humanitarian law binding on all States...
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  • when Kelly goes against orders to save Stella from a fire involving exploding ammunition. The two try a 'friends with benefits' relationship, but quickly...
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    Disregarding the fact that their armored vehicle was on fire and munitions were exploding around them, these four soldiers rushed to the scene to try to help the...
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    went at once through the smoke filled fuselage into the fire and exploding ammunition in the turret to help the gunner to a place of relative safety. He...
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    only Union casualty was one man injured by flying debris from the exploding ammunition wagons. Whitlock pp. 206–207. Frazier, p. 226 "Civil War Encampment...
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  • darkness to scout the town. His men set fire to the trains, and exploding ammunition led the nearby Grierson to assume the worst, that a major battle...
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  • of exploding, Capt. Taylor rushed forward and personally extracted the wounded to safety despite the hail of enemy fire and exploding ammunition. Within...
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    underway, volunteers returned on board and extinguished fires amidst exploding ammunition. The tug Rail towed Kanawha to the west side of Tulagi where she...
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    in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno...
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    the Italian soldiers had fled and the firefight had been caused by exploding ammunition, the frustrated US army official took his rage out in a stream of...
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    (CVE-26). Hudson steered for the fiercely blazing carrier. Despite the exploding ammunition on the drifting carrier, the destroyer was able to go alongside three...
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    cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance...
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    Firearms license Packing Firearms and Ammunition - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Exploding Ammunition - Is this a problem? - My Firefighter...
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    only 15 rounds of ammunition per gun had been expended. Reports arrived during the conference that sounds of exploding ammunition had been heard and...
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    in December 1941. Hits were scored on two ammunition ships and a tanker. Burning oil and exploding ammunition spread over the harbour. Some 16 ships were...
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    German ammunition train parked between Overweg and the Industrieweg at the Zutphen railway yard. The target was hit, but the exploding ammunition, including...
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    Armour-piercing ammunition Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate armour protection, most often including naval...
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    hour she sank. 152 were dead or missing, but despite the hazard of exploding ammunition from the blazing ship, 188 survivors were rescued. 152 Navy 1945...
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