highexplosive

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We send five or six destroyers to shoot more than 1,000 highexplosive shells at one Iranian oil platform that is forgotten the next day.

Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992
Certainly after the break-up of the Russians the increase in shell fire was very noticeable on the Western front, and apart from the machine-gun fire and the attacks, the daily casualties are the result of shrapnel and highexplosive fire from the enemy guns which cover the rear areas continuously, sometimes more intense than at other times, and of course shutting up entirely sometimes.

The Artillery at Passchendaele 1918
The munitions we brought to this fight were 155-mm highexplosive (HE) M107 (short-range) and M795 (long-range) rounds, illumination and white phosphorous (WP, M110 and M825), with point-detonating (PD), delay, time and variable-time (VT) fuzes.

The mysterious case of white phosphorous Or: how the BBC learned to stop worrying and love the bomb 2005