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armour-piercing

Adjective

Meaning

armour-piercing (not comparable)

(military, British spelling) alternative form of armor-piercing

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

These designs were known either as armour-piercing composite rigid (APCR), high-velocity armor-piercing (HVAP) and "hartkern" (hard core) (resp. by the British, US and Germans). Source: Internet

Interestingly, armoured vests managed to hold off bullets shot from an AKM automated rifle and even armour-piercing sniper SVD. Source: Internet

Between 1941 and 1943, the British combined the two techniques in the armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) round. Source: Internet

Semenoff (1907) p. 63 The Russians used armour-piercing rounds with small guncotton bursting charges and unreliable fuses. Source: Internet

The two 37 mm (1.46 in) cannons were mounted in under-wing gun pods, each loaded with two six-round magazines of armour-piercing tungsten carbide -cored ammunition. Source: Internet

This automatic cannon is mounted near the centre of fuselage and carries 460 high-fragmentation, explosive incendiary, or armour-piercing rounds. Source: Internet

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