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Examples

  • Is it safe to use a very small directional shaped-charge to eject the earplugs?

    Properly Insert Earplugs For Better Protection | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Is it safe to use a very small directional shaped-charge to eject the earplugs?

    Properly Insert Earplugs For Better Protection | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • One big reason for the jump in the U.S. fatality rate seems to be the guerrillas 'shift to shaped-charge IEDs.

    Unholy Allies 2008

  • All carried assortments of cut­ting torches, hydrospanners, and shaped-charge detonators that hung from their belts like weapons.

    This Time It's Personal.... - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2008

  • But call it just possibly the Biggest, Baddest shaped-charge IED the Universe can provide, and aimed approximately in our direction.

    A Ticking Time Bomb? Zoe Brain 2008

  • It's a shaped-charge mechanism that can be hidden under brush or debris on a roadside and set off by remote control from 300 yards or more.

    Unholy Allies 2008

  • Contents of shells range from pure metal (as in an early, simple cannonball) to explosives (as in the high explosive and shaped-charge shells generaly used by tanks) to advanced anti-personnel munitions, which explode and release smaller objects (much like a shotgun shell releases 'shot').

    Boing Boing: July 16, 2006 - July 22, 2006 Archives 2006

  • U.S. officials believe that Iran gave Iraqi insurgents know-how to build the shaped-charge IEDs that have been so effective in attacking Coalition forces -- a technique perfected by Hizbullah guerrillas against the Israelis.

    The Hand That Feeds the Fire 2007

  • The Orion designs relied on nuclear impulse power; they would chuck a shaped-charge nuclear bomb behind them, touch it off, and absorb the energy using a pusher plate, shock absorbers and a massive ship/payload.

    Rockets and some autobiography 2006

  • The Orion designs relied on nuclear impulse power; they would chuck a shaped-charge nuclear bomb behind them, touch it off, and absorb the energy using a pusher plate, shock absorbers and a massive ship/payload.

    Queso menonita 2006

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