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  • "Projectiles" to be entered under their appropriate heads in the blank.

    Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

  • Correct me if I am wrong, but the PSNI quite like having the Army along. mainly for the fact that they are much more ready to deploy Energy Attenuating Projectiles, and in the case of the Cheshires extremley ready to use them.

    Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The ad warns that Explosively Formed Projectiles that are being used against American tanks are being “created in oil-rich Iran.”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010 2010

  • The ad warns that Explosively Formed Projectiles that are being used against American tanks are being “created in oil-rich Iran.”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010 2010

  • When you tried to zoom in on a telegram announcing the Confederate raid on Vermont, you got a close-up view of an entirely different document showing "B.B. Hotchkiss 'Improvements in Explosive Projectiles, Patented 1862."

    Exhibit review: 'Discovering the Civil War' at the National Archives 2010

  • Other ongoing projects include acoustic devices and Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs) which hurl plasma at crowds, causing 'pain and temporary paralysis'.

    Coming Soon-- Riots in America? 2009

  • Projectiles came to a sudden stop in midair, held by the shield.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • According to my sources inside Iran, the Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFP) used against the Multi-National Force in Iraq are built in Iran on the confidential order of the Qods Force ... mdash; the same force the five IRGC commanders captured by the U.S. are a part of ... mdash; which moves these deadly weapons to Iraq by its Iraqi agents and distributes them among various terrorist proxies.

    U.S.-Iran Talks: Much To-Do About Nothing 2007

  • The Bullets were small of caliber, it is True, but the Tiny Pistol must have packed a Great Charge of Powder, for both Projectiles had — it was Obvious from my first Inspection — penetrated the Idiot Giant's skin, flesh, muscle layer, and stomach lining.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Projectiles and beams were bouncing off our troop transports even as we landed.

    Old Mans War 2005

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