projectile
Example Sentences
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Defense companies use antimony to harden bullets and strengthen armor-penetrating projectiles, while gallium is critical to the production of semiconductors.
If those steps don’t work, Kellum said other options might include trapping and potentially using nonlethal projectiles, such as paint balls, to chase away, haze and deter them.
From Los Angeles Times
Russia also said it had shot down projectiles overnight, including British Storm Shadow missiles.
From BBC
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered officials to step up production of missiles and construct more factories to meet his military's growing need for the projectiles, state media said Friday.
From Barron's
“If the journalists are in that environment, they sometimes get hit with less-lethal projectiles — as do our police officers who are in that same environment,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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