explosively formed penetrator
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editexplosively formed penetrator (plural explosively formed penetrators)
- A type of shaped charge with a shallow depression instead of a deep cone on the attacking face, allowing the metal plate to be explosively formed into a high velocity projectile that can penetrate armour at stand-off distances, greater than that of the hypervelocity plasma from the deeply coned form of shaped charge munitions.
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edit- EFP (abbreviation)
- explosively formed projectile / explosively-formed projectile
- self-forging fragment
- self-forging warhead
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