flat trajectory in a sentence
Examples
- The improved 8.8 cm gun had a very flat trajectory out to, making it easier for the gunner to hit targets at longer ranges as fewer corrections in elevation were needed.
- Because of its relatively high velocity for a handgun round, the . 400 Corbon offers a very flat trajectory, which in turn allows the firearms chambered for it more effective range.
- A shell containing a fast burning tailed or charcoal star that is burst very hard so that the stars travel in a straight and flat trajectory before slightly falling and burning out.
- Due to their flat trajectory and greater armor penetration and the fact that thicker armor was used to shield them, German tanks enjoyed a definite superiority to any American vehicle in use.
- In such an encounter, shells would fly on a relatively flat trajectory, and a shell would have to hit at or just about the waterline to damage the vitals of the ship.
- The 26 Nosler is designed as a modern 6.5mm cartridge, using recent advances in firearm technology to attain exceptionally high muzzle velocities ( up to ) and maintain an extremely flat trajectory.
- As written with much surface ingenuity by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, who also wrote " The Net, " the film has the steady momentum and flat trajectory of a video game.
- The addition of a flat trajectory makes it particularly popular in plains states where the open fields can require longer-range shots on game, as this flatness tends to minimize range-estimation errors by the hunter.
- The problem with igniferous fuzes was that they were not very precise and somewhat erratic, but good enough for flat trajectory shrapnel ( ranges were relatively short by later standards ) or high bursting carrier shells.
- In one great valley, it was only when I was travelling beside a river that I saw the antiaircraft guns dug in beside the banks, barrels on a flat trajectory, camouflage netting pulled over ammunition bunkers.