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The Spall and Maryak approach applies when the shot data represent a mixture of different projectile characteristics (e.g., shots from multiple munitions types or from multiple locations directed at one target).
Fiocchi Munizioni was founded on 3 July 1876 in Lecco, Italy, by accountant Giulio Fiocchi. In 1876, Giulio Fiocchi took over the ammunition production part of a weapon and ammunition company already based in Lecco, which produced small- caliber ammunition. [citation needed] A Fiocchi cal. 12 gauge. At that time a radical change was introduced ...
A cluster bomb is dropped at the Nightmare Range in South Korea. A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles.
US Air Force Douglas A-1E Skyraider dropping a 100-pound (45 kg) M47 white phosphorus bomb on a Viet Cong position in South Vietnam in 1966. White phosphorus munitions are weapons that use one of the common allotropes of the chemical element phosphorus. White phosphorus is used in smoke, illumination, and incendiary munitions, and is commonly ...
Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. The chain has 571 stores [ 3] across the United States . The first Trader Joe's store was opened in 1967 by founder Joe Coulombe in Pasadena, California. [ 4] The chain was sold to Aldi founder Theo Albrecht [ 5] in 1979, who owned it until his death in ...
The NuScale Power Module is NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR) that can provide cost-effective, scalable nuclear power of up to 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe). Its scalable plant design can ...
Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate armour protection, most often including naval armour, body armour, and vehicle armour. [1]The first major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armour carried on many warships and cause damage to their lightly-armoured interiors.
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, in a letter to William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, about the British army's decision to leave Boston, dated March 21, 1776. Many crucial events of the American Revolution occurred in or near Boston. The then-town's mob presence, along with the colonists' growing lack of faith in either Britain or its Parliament, fostered a revolutionary spirit there. When the ...