Just before midnight German dive bombers attacked the ship three times in the middle of the Vestfjorden, setting the ship on fire, exploding ammunition, and killing several army officers and men.
It also prohibited exploding ammunition, as well as ammunition containing noxious substances and any form of grenade or shell designed to be projected from a firearm.
Fires, exploding ammunition, and her inability to shoot any longer made the "abandon ship" order unavoidable at 0230.
He also sought to use tanks to clear extensive barbed wire defences, while supporting the tank force with the No. 106 shell fuze, designed to explode high explosive (HE) ammunition without cratering the ground to supplement the armour.
A portion of that conduit fully thirty miles in length was in the air, a twisted, flaming inferno of wrecked generators, exploding ammunition, and broken and short- circuited high-tension leads before the hexans could themselves cut it and thus save the remainder of their fortifications.
On one occasion, she said, Mr. Harris exploded ammunition into the trunk of a tree, destroying it, and said, "Imagine that in someone's [expletive] brain."
When Western tank designs changed from non-combustible propellant cartridges to semi-combustible, they tended to separate ammunition stowage from the crew compartment with armoured blast doors, and provided 'blow-out' panels to redirect the force and fire of exploding ammunition away from the crew compartment.
Personnel losses had been exceptionally high from exploding ammunition, yet her crew had never given up fighting the fires.
That's the thing you smash cars and explode ammunition with, eh?
Twice Suilin managed to explode the grenades or ammunition that his targets carried.