armor piercing
Through steel plating
Armor piercing describes ammunition or weapons designed to penetrate protective plating—on vehicles, body armor, or fortifications.
Armor-piercing rounds achieve this through harder materials, specialized shapes, or higher velocities: armor-piercing bullets, armor-piercing shells.
The term appears hyphenated when modifying a noun directly.
Often abbreviated AP.
- flechettesSmall finned steel projectiles
- railgunsElectromagnetic projectile launchers
- guided munitionsSelf-directing military explosives
- artillery shellsLarge-caliber explosive projectiles
- carbon nanotubesRolled hexagonal lattice structures
tracer rounds · combat drones · depleted uranium · sniper rifles · ambush tactics · hardened steel · tank warfare · cop killer · tungsten carbide
- armor warfaretanks, tank battalions, tank commanders, tank crews, blitzkrieg
- naval gunnerynaval gun, cannons, gunnery drills, guns, naval guns
- ballisticsballistics, bullet, bullet drop, cartridge, trajectory
- Anti-tankanti-tank gun, RPG, bazooka, bazookas, javelin
- Weaponryrifles, shotguns, grenades, missiles, bombs
- ammunitionammunition, ammo, bullet, bullets, shells
armor piercingrubber bullets
Non-lethal police ammunition
frangible · blunt · blanks · blank rounds · practice rounds
armor piercinghollow point
Bullet with concave tip
expanding · fragmentation · frangible · dum-dum · fragmenting
armor piercingarmor plating
Defensive metal cladding
armored · shielded · bulletproof · hardened · protective
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