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This engraving shows a 12-pounder U.S. shrapnel shell c. 1865. It is fitted with a Borman fuse. In the cutaway view, the dark grey is the wall of the shell, the medium grey is sulphur resin, the light grey are the musket balls, and the black is the bursting charge.
Secondary blast wounds may be lethal and therefore many anti-personnel explosive devices are designed to generate fast-flying fragments. Most casualties are caused by secondary injuries as shrapnels generally affect a larger area than the primary blast area , because debris can easily be propelled for hundreds or even thousands of meters.
Seven-year-old Sila Houso’s mother will not let the girl see her own shrapnel wounds after an Israeli strike that disfigured her head, fractured her forehead and detached a retina. Sila and her ...
The term "shrapnel" is commonly, although incorrectly from a technical standpoint, used to refer to fragments produced by any explosive weapon. However, the shrapnel shell, named for Major General Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery, predates the modern high-explosive shell and operates by an entirely different process. [2]
A paramedic treats a Ukrainian soldier who suffered a shrapnel wound to his head as they race toward a hospital in an ambulance run by the MOAS international aid group, in far eastern Ukraine ...
Many of them still have pieces of shrapnel in their body. Some of the women who have returned recently said they were held in tunnels and deprived of sunlight for at least eight months straight, said Banov, which can lead to major vision or skin issues.
Still able to hold a rifle with his one good hand, Tango defended his wounded team while trying to keep pressure on Webber's wound. The shrapnel had damaged his lungs, and he was having trouble ...
Ball turret gunner Alan Eugene Magee (13 January 1919 – 20 December 2003), though suffering 27 shrapnel wounds, bails out (or is thrown from wreckage) without his parachute at ~20,000 feet (6,100 m), loses consciousness due to altitude, freefall plunges through glass roof of the Gare de Saint-Nazaire and is found alive but with serious ...