penetration bomb

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   a bomb with about 30% explosive and a casing designed to penetrate hardened targets before the explosive detonates

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Questions about penetration bomb

What does penetration bomb mean?

penetration bomb means "a bomb with about 30% explosive and a casing designed to penetrate hardened targets before the explosive detonates".

Is penetration bomb a common word?

penetration bomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.