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propellant
1. The APs called it phougas and poured it into metal containers (remarkably similar to those used by the Army to ship 175mm propellant charges) which they stuck into the ground at an outward angle
2. That concept called for many projectiles and their propellant to be loaded one on top of the other inside a single firing tube, to be then ignited electronically
3. The 6mm armor-piercing ammunition was contained in twelve steel tubes held together inside a molded polymer block that also helped absorb the high pressures from burning propellant
4. “What If, this ‘genius’ at Cal Tech, had somehow developed a propellant that, modified, could
5. The explosive propellant material was a hard, waterproof substance, molded as a cartridge case, bonded to the bullet and fired electrically
6. to be removed, and the propellant properties added to
7. The four Harpoon anti-ship missiles stored in their launch boxes above the engine room sympathetically detonated as well from the blast wave of the explosion, adding the force of four 500 pound warheads and four solid propellant rocket engines
8. ‘’Well, since the German ballistic missile technology has shifted from liquid rocket propellant to solid propellant in this history, I suppose that the same happened to this variant of the WASSERFAL, sir
9. The shells and propellant charges in the trucks soon started to burn and explode as Gertrude performed a third pass, targeting the guns that had escaped her bombs with a salvo of 75mm rockets
10. I want solid propellant rocket motors to be used, so that our future ICBMs could stay on launch alert indefinitely without the need to be fuelled up just before launch
11. Pushed hard in her seat by the 320 metric tons of thrust from her two solid propellant rocket boosters, Ingrid made her space plane climb at a shallow angle at first, wanting to take on speed while having enough air around to start her ramjet engines once past the speed of sound
12. Her push was off a bit and she had to use her gas gun to correct her trajectory, firing only short, calculated jets in order to save on her gas propellant
13. She was more than a little pleased at seeing that her space plane’s concept was actually so efficient that there was still a significant amount of propellant left in the tanks of her orbital rocket engines
14. The smell of exhaust and the chemical residue in the rocket propellant triggered allergic reactions in some of the people at the launch site, including two asthma attacks, but mostly just watery eyes
15. When it hit the firing pin at the base, it would trigger the cap, which ignited the propellant attached to the bomb’s fins
16. Jacob’s ears buzzed from the three shots, the thunder banging around inside his skull, the sour smell of propellant adding to his shock, bringing on waves of nausea
17. At the moment, 7th Brigade had loaned its heavy mortars to 8th Brigade, and their gunners were opening crates of bombs and propellant charges while the lighter M95s continued to make their way closer to the town
18. Their explosive projectiles weighed thirty-three pounds, without propellant charge, and Azkhat’s gunners had cursed them with sweaty sincerity in training
19. Its rifling was more precise than anything even Taigys Mahldyn’s shops could have cut, the barrel lining was chrome plated, the stock was precisely tailored to his height and reach, and the cartridges in its magazine—loaded with a smokeless propellant centuries in advance of anything pre-Merlin Safehold could have produced—drove its massive bullets at well over two thousand feet per second, with a muzzle energy of better than five thousand foot-pounds
20. And unlike artillery shells, rockets are perfect vehicles to deliver dynamite—” she used the term deliberately, and several members of her audience smiled “—warheads, so even with black powder propellant, each of our rockets will be much more destructive than one of theirs
21. The weightiest commercial satellite is TerreStar-1, with a launch mass, including propellant, of 6,903
22. Place it on tinder with the remaining propellant and you will soon have a fire going
