A tube containing explosive used by infantry for blowing up wire entanglements or other barriers.
爆破筒
Example sentencesExamples
My job, as a demolitions expert, was to take Bangalore torpedoes and satchel charges to blow up the caves where the Japanese had hunkered down.
Once the Bangalore torpedoes did their job of removing the barbed wire obstacles, the enemy broke contact and ran.
Once we tried to use Bangalore torpedoes to clear a path into an enemy hideout.
Instead, they'd take the building down, with Bangalore torpedoes and satchel charges (weapons once used to take out bunkers at Normandy on D-Day).
Lt. Dillon put three Bangalore torpedoes together and blew a hole big enough to drive a truck through.
A Bangalore torpedo is a long metal tube filled with dynamite.
Then came a small number of the diversion party, then thirty men of ‘B’ Company with some Bangalore torpedoes.
The original Bangalore torpedo was designed in 1912 by Captain McClintock, an engineer who worked for Bengal, Bombay and Madras Sappers and Miners.
He was quoted in the Kuwaiti newspaper Alzaman on 20 June 2002 as saying: ‘At least 40 children in Rafah lost their arms from the throwing of Bangalore torpedoes [pipe bombs].’
Because of their explosive characteristics, Bangalore torpedoes were the most successful conventional means in effecting complete destruction.
The Bangalore torpedo was a weapon invented by the British that was used for blowing up land mines or clearing barbed wire.
The saboteurs would break through fences by using bolt cutters or Bangalore torpedoes, pipe-shaped explosives developed by the British army in India nearly a century ago.
It's not easy being a combat engineer - - especially if you're lugging a Bangalore torpedo trying to clear minefields.
Two Bangalore torpedoes were placed in position and fired at 11.10, but the one opposite 27 Bay failed to explode.
When searching a heavily booby trapped area that does not have a clearly defined boundary, Bangalore torpedoes may be used to cut random cleared lanes into the area.
In keeping with its origins as a manufacturer of explosives, it produces three types of demolition charges and a series of detonators and Bangalore torpedoes.
Definition of Bangalore torpedo in US English:
Bangalore torpedo
(also bangalore torpedo)
noun
A tube containing explosives used by infantry for blowing up barriers.
爆破筒
Example sentencesExamples
The Bangalore torpedo was a weapon invented by the British that was used for blowing up land mines or clearing barbed wire.
A Bangalore torpedo is a long metal tube filled with dynamite.
Once we tried to use Bangalore torpedoes to clear a path into an enemy hideout.
My job, as a demolitions expert, was to take Bangalore torpedoes and satchel charges to blow up the caves where the Japanese had hunkered down.
The saboteurs would break through fences by using bolt cutters or Bangalore torpedoes, pipe-shaped explosives developed by the British army in India nearly a century ago.
When searching a heavily booby trapped area that does not have a clearly defined boundary, Bangalore torpedoes may be used to cut random cleared lanes into the area.
Then came a small number of the diversion party, then thirty men of ‘B’ Company with some Bangalore torpedoes.
It's not easy being a combat engineer - - especially if you're lugging a Bangalore torpedo trying to clear minefields.
In keeping with its origins as a manufacturer of explosives, it produces three types of demolition charges and a series of detonators and Bangalore torpedoes.
He was quoted in the Kuwaiti newspaper Alzaman on 20 June 2002 as saying: ‘At least 40 children in Rafah lost their arms from the throwing of Bangalore torpedoes [pipe bombs].’
The original Bangalore torpedo was designed in 1912 by Captain McClintock, an engineer who worked for Bengal, Bombay and Madras Sappers and Miners.
Lt. Dillon put three Bangalore torpedoes together and blew a hole big enough to drive a truck through.
Two Bangalore torpedoes were placed in position and fired at 11.10, but the one opposite 27 Bay failed to explode.
Because of their explosive characteristics, Bangalore torpedoes were the most successful conventional means in effecting complete destruction.
Once the Bangalore torpedoes did their job of removing the barbed wire obstacles, the enemy broke contact and ran.
Instead, they'd take the building down, with Bangalore torpedoes and satchel charges (weapons once used to take out bunkers at Normandy on D-Day).