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What does HE stand for?

High-Explosive


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Samples in periodicals archive:
ie LETHAL WEAPON The AT-4 is made in Sweden and lets one infantryman destroy an armoured vehicle It is a single-shot, unguided rocket-propelled weapon The warhead can either be HEAT - High-Explosive Anti-Tank or HEDP - High-Explosive Dual Purpose, which is more effective against bunkers The AT-4 is recoilless, which means it throws out a large flame backblast to counterbalance the flying warhead U.
75-inch rocket, one rocket-propelled grenade round, two 120 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, 12 60 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, two 81 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, two homemade bombs, 35 non-electric detonators, five 60 mm mortar fuses, three electric detonators, one stick of C4, two fragmentation grenades, three AK-47 barrels, two machine gun barrels and 10 copper explosively formed penetrators," according to the statement.
The first was on March 2 by 406 B-17s which dropped 940 tons of high-explosive bombs and 141 tons of incendiaries.
Steve Younger, director of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency recently discussed the attributes of the high-explosive thermobaric weapon, which has been used in Afghanistan.
The court heard the July 21 devices used the high-explosive TATP as a detonator.
The IAEA has been gathering information about Parchin, a munitions factory and high-explosives test site 20 miles southeast of Tehran, for nearly two years.
The first live test of the high-explosive bomb u which has the power of a small nuclear weapon and will create a cloud big enough to be seen for miles u was carried out in north west Florida last night.
The work is for the demilitarization of nine families of conventional ammunition, including pyrotechnics, bombs, high-explosive cartridges, improved conventional munitions, bulk propellants, fuzes and small-caliber ammunition.

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