Now, it is practically free for military and arms manufactures and is used in tank armor and extensively in armor-piercing shells known as depleted uranium penetrators. |
It was a very sophisticated space probe, it had everything on it, penetrators, balloons, orbiting things, you know, it was just the whole shooting match. |
Penetrators will be connected by an umbilicus to an afterbody containing imaging and meteorological instruments. |
We emerged triumphant close to the bow section, exchanged steely stares as befits the penetrators of mighty wrecks, and swam off to pose beside the bow gun. |
The Chinese are already selling a 100 mm shells with depleted uranium penetrators, so they obviously know how to deal with depleted uranium. |
They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles. |