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front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere

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Two of the problem children are the 130- and 140-grain Berger VLD's, which may be why Berger introduced other 6.5mm bullets with slightly shorter ogives since 2007.
Those are very good results for any ammunition, but fantastic numbers for bullets with secant ogives.
Therefore, when considering SS in estimating the maturity ogives, we classified females in the resting stage as immature individuals.
To promote optimum accuracy, the RDF employs a marriage of both tangent and secant ogives at the point where the bullet takes the rifling.
Les Etats-Unis ont joue l'apaisement face a la Coree du Nord en reportant un essai de missile a ogive nucleaire avant une semaine a haut risque sur la peninsule coreenne oE Pyongyang a deploye deux missiles susceptibles d'atteindre le territoire americain dans le Pacifique.
Externally, the Critical Duty FlexLock bullets are virtually identical in appearance to their Critical Defense FTX counterparts except for slight differences in the ogive profiles and an "H" molded into the end of the polymer tip.
The secant ogive tapers faster than a tangent ogive.
Company spokesman Mark Avery says the product, which is made from sustainable, recycled materials such as car tyres, is anti-slip, impact resistant, and although it has the appearance of tarmac, Ogives the feel underfoot of a deep-pile carpetO.
Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist group in the Parliament, said that Luxembourgs approval of the Constitution ogives a new chance for the ratification processo.
Semi-spitzer ogives and higher ballistic coefficients make the 245- and 285-grain bullets highly effective even at extended range.
He has also used Satie's music (a score for piano called Ogives, which consists entirely of chords) for a second new dance.
Flow forming can be used to produce hemispheres, ogives, and other curvilinear surfaces, as well as cylindrical parts, either with uniform or tapered wall thicknesses.
Signalant, par ailleurs, que Moscou dispose, desormais, d'un nouveau missile intercontinental a capacite nucleaire, de petites ogives nucleaires qui peuvent equiper des missiles de croisiere, de drones nucleaires sous-marins et d'un missile supersonique, le chef de l'Etat Russe a tenu a signaler aux puissances occidentales et en particulier Washington que toute attaque nucleaire contre un de ses allies sera considere comme etant une attaque contre la Russie et entrainera, a ce titre, une riposte immediate quand bien meme la doctrine nucleaire russe qui reste purement defensive oblige Moscou a ne jamais degainer la premiere.
The most recently introduced bullets have secant ogives, but are round where the bullet transitions from ogive to the bearing surface.