If a projectile struck the turret at an acute angle, it was expected to glance off without doing damage.
If a projectile struck that angle what would happen?
He required nothing more than just sufficient power of propulsion to break the skin and establish contact with the blood, and then that hellish compound on the point of the projectile could be depended upon to do the rest.
No thorn nor, indeed, any other projectile has entered the flesh, nor is there one lying anywhere about the floor.
It was only after repeated experiments that it was learned that the shorter guns carried the projectile the greatest distance.
But the projectile fell short, and landed about twenty feet from shore, splashing the water high.
The velocity of the projectile leaving the gun will be 2,600 feet per second, a speed which if maintained would carry it around the world in less than fifteen hours.
The heaviest armor is usually placed at the water line because it is this part of the ship which is the most vulnerable and open to attack and where a shell or projectile would do the most harm.
Then came the use of special plates, the compound armor where a hard face to break up the projectile was welded to a softer back to give the necessary strength.
The very speed of the great projectile must hold it to its course; the faster it went the more difficult to swerve it from a line.
And Blake, as he leaned forward on the stick to throw his plane downward in a power dive, could have had a vision, not of a ship of the air, but only of a shining projectile as the great monster shrieked overhead.
They may be divided into two classes--those intended for throwing, which come under the head of projectile weapons, and those which do not leave the hand, but are thrust into the animal.
In former times the bow was the only projectile weapon which these people possessed that could be used at a longer range than the "dart" of a harpoon.
Yes, we will make the projectile according to your specification, but you will, of course, supply the bursting charge and the charge of this new powder of yours which is to send it into Space.
Great Lever pit into the gigantic cannon which was to hurl into Space the projectile which might or might not save the human race from destruction.
The huge projectile which was to wing its way into Space to do battle for the life of humanity was completed.
Nothing was ever seen of the projectile which "The Pittsburg Prattler" had hurled into space.
There are two barrels, or, more accurately speaking, a barrel for discharge of the projectile and a chamber for the explosive substance, which is the secret.
Her after turret was pierced in a twinkling, and a two-hundred pound projectile dropped inside.
Illustration] With a weariness that lay almost beyond the limits of thought, he threw his mind back into rapport with the pin-set, fixing the Lady May's projectile gently and neatly in its launching tube.
For a few hours, she was welded into her projectile until a workman with a short cutting arc would remove her after she had done her duty.
He picked up the entire projectileand slipped it into the ejection tube.
Such a resistance, by destroying a part of the projectile force, would cause the comet to approach nearer to the sun, and thus to have its periodic time shortened.
To see the effects of this process, let us suppose that the projectile motions of the earth and moon were destroyed, and that they were allowed to fall freely towards the sun.
There was a hectic carnival atmosphere in the city, and the noise of the holiday celebration was punctuated by the occasional hiss of a beamer or the flat explosion of a projectile weapon.
It was faster and more accurate than any projectile weapon, and it transmitted the same shock-power as a heavy caliber bullet.
The wooden front buckled under the impact of a projectile weapon and splinters slashed his hand.
The earth is not moved by the combination of a centripetal and a projectile force; this is but a mode of speaking which serves to facilitate our conceptions.
The terrible projectile lowered as it approached, and then fell with a terrific noise a little way from us, in front of the last house on the left-hand side of the avenue.
However, some precautions were necessary, for neither the shooting nor the cannonade had ceased yet, and every moment one expected to see some projectile or other fall among the advancing multitude.
Curiously enough the projectile was perfected within gunshot of the British aerodrome of Hendon and is stated to have been offered to the British Government at the time, and to have met with a chilling reception.
Attempts have been and still are being made to adapt an explosive projectile to this gun, but so far the measure of success achieved has not proved very promising.
It is a fiendish projectileconsisting in reality of a pencil of solid polished steel, 4 3/4 inches in length.
The outstanding feature of this system is that the projectile is given a higher initial velocity than is possible with the barrel held rigid at the moment of discharge, because the shell is already travelling at the moment of firing.
It is claimed by the Germans that this projectile will keep aloft for half-an-hour or more, but this is a phantasy.
It fires an armour piercing projectile which, striking the motor of any aircraft, would instantly put the latter out of action.
In falling the bomb spins round, the rotating speed increasing as the projectilegathers velocity.
The vanes act as a guide, keeping the projectile in as vertical a plane as possible, and ensuring that the rounded head shall strike the ground.
The greatest difficulty in connection with this phase of artillery, however, is not so much the evolution of a serviceable and efficient type of gun, as the determination of the type of projectile which is likely to be most effective.
Again, the weight of the projectile and its velocity had to be borne in mind.
This projectile follows the usual pear-shape, and has a rotating tail to preserve direction when in flight.
When the projectile is adopted, and these works are manufacturing it in quantities to help win the war, still no information concerning it must be made public.
On learning that he had a relative on the munitions board, I asked him to come, to my house, where I made him the proposition to take our projectile to Washington and secure its adoption.
What you have mistaken for a bomb is his latest design of projectile for an eight-inch gun.
After exhibiting the projectile to Mr. Colton and securing the firm's option to manufacture it on a royalty basis, we are to take it to my house, where Mr. Dyer will receive it and obtain our final instructions.
Through all these bodies the projectile in its furious course made its way, crushing delicate mechanisms, rending the precious organs which make us take pleasure in walking, breathing, drinking.
This morning I extracted a little projectile from one of his wounds.
Very properly may they hold that some projectile might have been shot through the partly opened window and none of us have detected the act.
What sort of weapon or projectile produced that wound is a question of the utmost importance, shrouded in the deepest of mysteries.
There was a flash and then the shriek of a projectile as the aeroplane dipped under the glow of the light.
But, as de Garros said, the metal helmet would not be much protection against the projectile of a quick firer, or even a rifle.
The projectile struck the stern of the liner and knocked the elaborate gilt work wreathing, her name and port, into smithereens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "projectile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
