For handguns and long guns, the projectile is a bullet or, in historical hand cannons, a shot.

Neither the amount of gunpowder, nor the consistency in projectile dimensions were controlled, with resulting inaccuracy in firing due to windage, and due to the difference in diameter between the bore and the shot.

A shotgun ( also known as a scattergun and peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece ) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.

The spreading of the shot allows the user to point the shotgun close to the target, rather than having to aim precisely as in the case of a single projectile.

Larger shot size, up to the extreme case of the single projectile slug load, results in increased penetration, but at the expense of fewer projectiles and lower probability of hitting the target.

* A distinctive camera shot where the camera follows a moving object ( such as an arrow or a projectile weapon ) at high speeds creating a first-person point of view from the object itself ;

The History of Jin 《 金史 》 ( compiled by 1345 ) states that in 1232, as the Mongol general Subutai ( 1176 – 1248 ) descended on the Jin stronghold of Kaifeng, the defenders had a " thunder-crash bomb " which " consisted of gunpowder put into an iron container ... then when the fuse was lit ( and the projectile shot off ) there was a great explosion the noise whereof was like thunder, audible for more than a hundred li, and the vegetation was scorched and blasted by the heat over an area of more than half a mou.

An arrow is a shafted projectile that is shot with a bow.

By casting the projectile point downwards and forming the head in an iron mold, the hot metal was suddenly chilled and became intensely hard ( resistant to deformation ), while the remainder of the mold, being formed of sand, allowed the metal to cool slowly and the body of the shot to be made tough ( resistant to shattering ).

The rear cavity of these projectiles was capable of receiving a small bursting charge of about 2 % of the weight of the complete projectile ; when this is used, the projectile is called a shell, not a shot.

* Round shot, a solid projectile used in muzzle-loading cannon

* The projectile, most typically a solid lead ball, loose shot, a Minié ball or a jacketed modern bullet in a plastic sabot.

After receiving the whole support of his companions, a few of them meet to decide the place from where the projectile will be shot, the dimensions and makings of both the cannon and the projectile, and which kind of powder are they to use.

" Lightning Bolt " will award Giana " Dream Bubbles ", a single projectile shot.

A shell is a payload-carrying projectile which, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot ( AP, APCR, APCNR, APDS, APFSDS and proof shot ).

Because of the limited energy and momentum of less powerful cartridges, movie scenes in which an attacker fires a near-silent shot that instantly kills the victim are generally unrealistic ; excluding headshots that admit the projectile directly into the cranial cavity and / or chest shots that hit the left ventricle or aorta.

The shotgun fires multiple, non-coaxial projectiles ; firing out of a rifled barrel would cause a very high spread resulting in a doughnut-shaped pattern of shot ( with a high projectile density on the periphery, and a low projectile density in the interior ).

* Round shot, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons

He is also a notoriously bad shot with any form of projectile weaponry.

The pocket is grasped by the dominant hand and drawn back to the desired extent to provide power for the projectile ( up to a full span of the arms with sufficiently long bands ).

The player could also perform up to sixteen different moves, including projectile attacks.

Cage armour can also cause the projectile to pitch up or down on impact, lengthening the penetration path for the shaped charge's penetration stream.

Mass drivers can have no physical contact between moving parts due to the projectile being guided by dynamic magnetic levitation, allowing extreme reusability in the case of solid-state power switching, a life of theoretically up to millions of launches.

So the maximum height is obtained when the projectile is fired straight up.

On certain later levels, if the player loses their last life due to being killed by a projectile weapon, they will be sent up to a special " Heaven " round.

Electrons flow from the negative terminal of the power supply up the negative rail, across the projectile, and down the positive rail, back to the power supply.

In common coilgun designs the " barrel " of the gun is made up of a track that the projectile rides on, with the driver into the magnetic coils around the track.

Small coilguns are recreationally made by hobbyists, typically up to several joules to tens of joules projectile energy ( the latter comparable muzzle energy to a typical air gun and an order of magnitude less than a firearm ) while ranging from under one percent to several percent efficiency.

There is usually a trigger mechanism built into the base of the spigot, with a long firing pin running up the length of the spigot activating a primer inside the projectile and firing the propellant charge.

It was a mortar of a 290 mm bore, known to its crews as the " flying dustbin " due to the characteristics of its projectile: an unaerodynamic 20 kg charge which could be fired up to 100 m. This was sufficient to demolish many bunkers and earthworks and even disable a Tiger tank.

In this manner the momentum needed to raise the elevator car up against Earth's gravity would come directly from the projectile stream.

** can fire projectile up to 67 km at a rate of fire of eight rounds / minute ;

Upon firing, when the sabot and projectile leave the muzzle of the gun, inertia from the rotation of the projectile and sabot opens up the segments surrounding the projectile, releasing it.

It also features a pick up known as " Guns Akimbo ", that allowed the player to dual wield projectile weapons.

The idea was perfected in collaboration with James Richard Haskell that had been working for years on the same principle Haskell and Lyman reasoned that subsidiary propellant charges, spaced at intervals up the barrel of a gun in side chambers and ignited an instant after a shell had passed them, could increase the muzzle velocity of a projectile.

Papier-mâché sabots were used in everything from small arms, such as the Dreyse needle gun, up to artillery, such as the Schenkl projectile.

It is thrown up and forward and it flies similar to a regular projectile motion path.

However, another Chinese account tells that he died of a wound caused by cannon fire or a projectile launched from a Song Chinese trebuchet, while the Mongolians covered up the story by claiming that his death was due to illness to maintain their soldiers ' morale.

* Chaos-It uses a massive projectile weapon which breaks up into smaller pieces.

The perforations stabilize the burn rate because as the outside burns inward ( thus shrinking the burning surface area ) the inside is burning outward ( thus increasing the burning surface area, but faster, so as to fill up the increasing volume of barrel presented by the departing projectile ).

The primary benefits over rifled barrels is reduced barrel wear, longer ranges that can be achieved ( due to the reduced loss of energy to friction and gas escaping around the projectile via the rifling ) and larger explosive cores for a given caliber artillery due to less metal needing to be used to form the case of the projectile because of less force applied to the shell from the non-rifled sides of the barrel of smooth bore guns.

A shuttlecock ( often abbreviated to shuttle ; also called a birdie ) is a high-drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

Bones can serve a number of uses such as projectile points or artistic pigments, and can be made from endoskeletal or external bones such as antler or tusk.

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body.

The projectile fired from the Armstrong gun could reportedly pierce through a ship's side, and explode inside the enemy vessel, causing increased damage, and casualties.

Mortars use a similar concept of encapsulation ; however the projectile and casing are generally a single piece that is launched from the mortar.

Typically, the breech-loading powder chamber in the rear of the piece was filled only about half full, the serpentine powder neither too compressed nor too loose, a wooden bung pounded in to seal the chamber from the barrel when assembled, and the projectile placed on that.

One of the most powerful pickups that can be found is the " Tome of Power " which creates a much more powerful projectile from each weapon, some of which change the look of the projectile entirely.

The famous story in which Galileo is said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa is apocryphal, but he did find that the path of a projectile is a parabola, and he is credited with conclusions foreshadowing Newton's laws of motion ( such as discovering the property of inertia ).

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

Possibly the best known is a microlith from Star Carr in Yorkshire that retains residues of resin, probably used to fix it to the tip of a projectile.

Another clear indication is from the Readycon Dene site in West Yorkshire, where 35 microliths appear to be associated with a single projectile.

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Enemy-related injuries which justify the award of the Purple Heart include injury caused by enemy bullet, shrapnel, or other projectile created by enemy action ; injury caused by enemy placed land mine, naval mine, or trap ; injury caused by enemy released chemical, biological, or nuclear agent ; injury caused by vehicle or aircraft accident resulting from enemy fire ; concussion injuries caused as a result of enemy generated explosions.

* Shell ( projectile ), an explosive device fired from artillery

SDI was not just lasers ; in this Kinetic Energy Weapon test, a seven gram Lexan projectile was fired from a light gas gun at a velocity of 23, 000 feet per second ( 7, 000 meters per second or 15, 682 miles per hour ) at a cast aluminum block.

The softer balls did not spall when struck by the shock from the explosive, instead they deformed into a useful aerodynamic shape similar to a. 22 rimfire projectile.

The second optimization was to use a poured plastic matrix to briefly contain the blast from the explosive, so that more of the blast energy was converted into projectile velocity.

With time reversed we have the situation of two objects pushed away from each other, e. g. shooting a projectile, or a rocket applying thrust ( compare the derivation of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation ).

According to the company's marketing: " It carried a charge projectile weighing from 2, 200 to 2, 500 pounds which, when driven by 900 pounds of brown powder, was claimed to be able to penetrate at 2, 200 yards a wrought iron plate three feet thick if placed at right angles.