high-explosive

David Goldma/Associated Press U.S. soldiers fired a high-explosive round at an insurgent target after the base came under attack in Kunar province, Afghanistan, Thursday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

It can also be used to produce high-explosive weapons, such as armor-piercing rockets.

Iran Pressed to Resolve Discrepancy on Uranium Jay Solomon 2011

They said a former Russian nuclear scientist, Vyacheslav Danilenko, is the official cited in the report as making a string of visits to Tehran from 1996 through 2002 to help Iran develop a high-explosive initiation system, which can be used to trigger a nuclear device.

Iran Accused of Nuclear Aims Jay Solomon 2011

A hundred and fifty high-explosive incendiary HEI rounds spewed from the nose of my Harrier.

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

The Equalizer normally uses PGU-20/U armor-piercing incendiary (API) or PGU-22 or PGU-25 high-explosive incendiary (HEI) ammunition and fires at a rate of 3,600 rounds per minute or sixty rounds a second.

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

All night the Luftwaffe circled, pummeling the docklands and their adjacent working-class neighborhoods with high-explosive and incendiary bombs.

Black Saturday 2008

All night the Luftwaffe circled, pummeling the docklands and their adjacent working-class neighborhoods with high-explosive and incendiary bombs.

Black Saturday 2008

Since the supposedly more powerful 107 millimeter weapon Stalin remembered so fondly was a howitzer, it was designed to lob high-explosive shells down on enemy troops, not to disable armored vehicles.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Two blocks either side of the Green Line was virtually destroyed, buildings blown to pieces from high-explosive artillery shells and mortar rounds.

American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010

From high, medium, and low level, 179 bombers and 146 fighters pulverized the place with high-explosive bombs and napalm.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010