development of ammunitionIn order to improve the range of guns, rocket-assisted projectiles were developed, with moderate success, by the Germans during World War II, and they were the subject of further development in succeeding years. Rocket assistance had certain drawbacks—notably, the loss of payload space in the shell to the rocket motor. A system designed to solve this problem was “base bleed,”...
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