explosively formed penetrator (English, noun)
expansion: explosively formed penetrator (plural explosively formed penetrators)
Senses:
glosses: A type of shaped charge with a shallow depression instead of a deep cone on the attacking face, allowing the metal plate to be explosively formed into a high velocity projectile that can penetrate armour at stand-off distances, greater than that of the hypervelocity plasma from the deeply coned form of shaped charge munitions.
Forms:
form: explosively formed penetrators
tags: plural
form: explosively-formed projectile
tags: alternative