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Early shells
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Modern shell
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Overview
- Military
- Projectile
- Explosive
- Incendiary Incendiary device
- Chemical
- Tracer Tracer ammunition
- Mortars Mortar (weapon)
- Grenades Grenade
- French French language
- Pomegranate
- Artillery
- Armoured fighting vehicles Armored fighting vehicle
- Tanks Tank
- Assault guns Assault gun
- Mortar carriers Mortar carrier
- Warships Warship
- Autocannons Autocannon
- Cylinder Cylinder (geometry)
- Ogive
- Nose cone
- Aerodynamic
- Boat tail External ballistics
- Electronic time fuzes Artillery fuze
- Armour-piercing Armour-piercing shell
- Armour-piercing ballistic capped Armour-piercing ballistic capped?action=edit&redlink=1
- Armour-piercing capped
- Armour-piercing capped ballistic capped Armour-piercing, capped, ballistic capped shell
- Armour-piercing high-explosive Armour-piercing ammunition
- Fired from a tapering barrel Squeeze bore
- Armour-piercing discarding sabot
Background
- Low explosive
- Brisant Brisance
- Pipe bomb
- Pressure cooker bomb
- Grenades
- Cast-iron Cast iron
- Metonymically Metonymy
- Munition
- High explosives
- TNT
- Shrapnel Shrapnel shell
Early shells
- Ming Dynasty
- Chinese China
- Huolongjing
- Subutai
- Kaifeng
- Thunder crash bomb
- Half a mou Chinese units of measurement
- Iron armour Chinese armour
- Republic of Venice
- Corsica
- Ingolstadt
- Germany
- Precisely Accuracy and precision
- Slow match
- Bitumen
- Windage British ordnance terms
- Horizontal fire Direct fire
- Howitzers Howitzer
- Propelling Propellant
- Bronze
- Lead
- Brass
- Glass
- Bomb
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Sabots Sabot (firearms)
Modern shell
- Rifled breech-loading guns Rifled breech loader
- Cylindro-conoidal Cylindro-conoidal bullet
- Muzzle velocity
- Crimean War
- Napoleonic Wars
- William Armstrong William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
- Elswick Ordnance Company
- Royal Arsenal
- Woolwich
- Rifling
- Martin von Wahrendorff
- Joseph Whitworth
- Minié ball
- Metallurgy
- Precision engineering
- Industrial Revolution
- Swaged Swage
- Krupp
- Wiard gun Wiard rifle
- Armstrong gun
- Gas-check Gas check
- Driving band
- Copper
- Cupronickel
- Gilding metal
- Mercury fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate
- Alexander Forsyth Alexander John Forsyth
- Black powder Gunpowder
- Ammunition
- Guncotton
Other shell types
- Carcass shell Carcass (projectile)
- Louis XIV
- Oblong Rectangle
- Heated shot
- First World War
- Combat helmets Combat helmet
- Dud
- Battle of the Somme
- Gas Gas (chemical warfare)
Propulsion
- Fuzed Fuze
- Casing Cartridge (firearms)
- Primer Detonator
- Obturation
- Breech Breech-loading weapon
- World War I
- World War II
- Screw breech Interrupted screw
- Naval artillery
- Rocket-assisted projectiles Rocket-assisted projectile
- Base bleed
Sizes
- Caliber
- Diameter
- Millimeters Millimeter
- Centimeters Centimeter
- Inches Inch
- Caliber Caliber (artillery)
- 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun
- 12.7 x 82 Breda-SAFAT machine gun
- 13 x 64 MG 131 machine gun
- 20mm
- Railway guns Railway gun
- Schwerer Gustav
- Rockets Rocket
- Missiles
- 155 mm
- 2S7 Pion
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- M110 howitzer
- NATO
- Logistically Logistics
- Large-calibre gun Large-calibre artillery
- Pounds Pound (mass)
- BL 60-pounder gun
- RML 2.5 inch Mountain Gun
- 25-pounder gun-howitzer Ordnance QF 25-pounder
Types
- Ironclads Ironclad
- Pointed armour-piercing shell Armor-piercing shot and shell
- Palliser shot and shell
- Steel
- Bursting charge
- Anti-tank
- Panzergranate 39
- Detonation
- Organic compound
- Eugène Turpin
- Blasting Rock blasting
- Artillery shells Artillery shell
- Lydd
- Shimose powder
- Ecrasite
- Austria-Hungary
- Explosive D
- TNT Trinitrotoluene
- Toluene
- Amatol
- Anti-personnel
- FH-70
- High explosive
- Fuse Artillery fuse
- Gurney equations
- Proximity Proximity fuze
- RDX
- Composition B
- Cyclotol
- Bullets Bullet
Unexploded shells
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Nodes253
Edges252
Triples9
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007905
Components1
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Important terminology
shells shell used artillery use war explosive ammunition british fuze common guns world gun caliber charge shot projectile gunpowder century
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TNT removed the need for a pressure-holding casing | instance of | The advent of high explosives | 0.80 | text |
| so the casing of later shells only needed to contain the munition | instance of | The advent of high explosives | 0.80 | text |
| and | instance of | The advent of high explosives | 0.80 | text |
| if desired | instance of | The advent of high explosives | 0.80 | text |
| to produce shrapnel | instance of | The advent of high explosives | 0.80 | text |
| 20 mm to 30 mm cannon | instance of | with a red ring behind the nose to indicate the shell had been filled.Mine shellThe mine shell is a particular form of HE shell developed for use in small caliber weapons | 0.80 | text |
| the M687 Sarin gas shell | instance of | In some cases | 0.80 | text |
| the payload is stored as two precursor chemicals which are mixed after the shell is fired | instance of | In some cases | 0.80 | text |
| 20 mm to 30 mm cannon | instance of | Mine shellThe mine shell is a particular form of HE shell developed for use in small caliber weapons | 0.80 | text |
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