shaped charge

noun

, Military.

1. a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.

Example Sentences

A belief in the legitimacy of such violence is animated by a very dangerous lie and assumption that once unleashed such acts can be targeted and directed like some type of smart bomb or shaped charge against the left.

From Salon

Packed with shrapnel and a carrying a powerful shaped charge in its cone, the drone could have killed or wounded many Americans.

From Washington Post

"It was a pressure plate, IED with like hacksaw blades, and it shot the amount of explosives, had a piece of steel over top of it. So it creates a big shaped charge. And it just sliced right through the aluminum underbelly of this Amphibious Assault Vehicle hitting all the jet fuel, hitting all the 50,000 rounds of ammunition."

From Fox News

The first Hellfires were designed as tank busters with a powerful shaped charge, used in Afghanistan for which they were regarded as not entirely suitable.

From The Guardian

The new GPS-guided “shaped charge” Excalibur round brings extremely significant tactical and strategic advantages for attacking ground forces, by engineering a special armor-destroying warhead.

From Fox News