China's scientists have stated that striking the sides of GBU-57 MOP within a distance of 3,900 feet could shatter the bomb.

British army officer Henry Shrapnel made a name for himself in artillery. Courtesy Freshford.com 1842: Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the long-range artillery shell that bears his name, dies.

Vladimir Ivanov / RIA Novosti Russian designers are working on shrapnel with an intellectual explosive system. According to the military, it will create a "cloud of metal" that will destroy the ...

Until the end of World War I, the shells were still manufactured mainly according to Shrapnel’s original principles. Shrapnel was promoted to major on 1 November 1803 after eight years as a captain.

IN the published accounts of Field Artillery Experiments which are just now being carried on at Okehampton, in Devonshire, considerable prominence has been given to the formidable nature of the so ...

Is the bulletproof vest’s era passing, replaced by a fresh generation of shrapnel-proof fabrics designed for drone-saturated battlefields? In Ukraine, the response is already coalescing in the ...

Russia is developing anti-drone shrapnel-based weapons. A Russian soldier handles a 'Zastava' surveillance drone during exercises in the Western Military District, Leningradskaya region, March, 10 ...

Our Anti-aircraft shell nose-cone represents the part played world-wide by defences attempting to protect ciivilians against merciless bombing from the air. It was the fuse for a shell fired into ...

Major General Henry Shrapnel (1761- 1842) was a British Army officer whose surname entered the English language as the inventor of the “shrapnel shell”. The lethal projectiles contained small ...