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The W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile (AFAP), also known as XM753 (Atomic RA), was an American nuclear artillery shell, capable of being fired from...

(5,020 ha) of land could likely be tainted by these training days. Projectile, Atomic, Supercaliber 279mm XM388 for the Davy Crockett contained a W54 Mod...

rocket assist projectile (RAP) M509 ICM M404 ICM anti-personnel (airburst) M426 agent GB Sarin M422A1 Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile M424 High Altitude...

weighed 58 kg (128 lb); it was in a 155 mm M-45 AFAP (artillery fired atomic projectile) for firing from standard 155 mm howitzer. The fission warhead was...

retired in 1992. It was known as the XM454 AFAP (artillery fired atomic projectile) in US service. The weapon was 34 inches (86 cm) long and weighed...

Grable shot. Grable was a 280mm Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile (AFAP) shell fired from the "Atomic Cannon" and was viewed by a number of high-ranking...

II. The W9 artillery shell was test fired once, fired from the "Atomic Annie" M65 Atomic Cannon, in Upshot-Knothole Grable on May 25, 1953 at the NTS. Yield...

gun-type fission weapon fired from a gun. As a shell, or artillery-fired atomic projectile (AFAP), the device was the first of its kind. The test remains the...

guides itself to the nearest vehicle. XM454 AFAP (artillery fired atomic projectile) (W48) The XM454 AFAP (W48) nuclear artillery shell had a 155mm caliber...

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129...

Grable on May 25, 1953. List of nuclear weapons W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile Thomas B Cochran; William M Arkin; Milton M Hoenig (1984). Nuclear...

Little Boy was the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it...

hemispheres driven together to make a supercritical sphere, typically a hollow projectile is shot onto a spike, which fills the hole in its center. Its name is...

to launch high-velocity projectiles. The projectile normally does not contain explosives, instead relying on the projectile's high kinetic energy to inflict...

Air Pilots Internet slang for as far as possible Artillery fired atomic projectile, a type of tactical nuclear weapon This disambiguation page lists...

117°14′04″W / 32.89361°N 117.23444°W / 32.89361; -117.23444 General Atomics (GA) is an American energy and defense corporation headquartered in San...

between the projectile and target. These are useful in studying outer shell structure of nuclei. Transfer reactions can occur, from the projectile to the target;...

Airport, in Essex County, Virginia, United States W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

the use of atomic bombs. However, the prohibition only applied to weapons as lances with a barbed head, irregularly shaped bullets, projectiles filled with...

motor, the projectile carried less explosives. The pre-rifled 28 cm projectile A diagram of the major components of the rocket-assisted projectile (left)...