Two of them had magnum guns, new-style weapons powerful enough to penetrate steel.
During these latter years of the war, General Purpose High Explosive (HE) ammunition was preferred, because armor-piercing rounds, which had been designed for penetrating thicker steel, simply went through the thin armor of Japanese tanks, and often out the other side without stopping.
The round can better penetrate steel, brick, concrete, and masonry walls, as well as body armor and sheet metal.
Hakai no Yari (Destruction Spear): Piercing with his finger like a bullet, Hakai Banchou can penetrate even steel.
He was cooped in a place that he could not leave; and if any police bullets penetrated steel, they would find The Shadow before all others.
How does a wireless signal penetrate all that concrete and steel?
It drowned out the jangle of safety glass and the punch of individual bullets penetrating steel.
Sandecker, Olson and the other men on the highway could do nothing but watch the nightmarish disaster like eyewitnesses at a train derailment, unable to fathom the unrelenting cataclysm that could penetrate and crush concrete, wood, steel and flesh.
He had hardened and sharpened his hands, enabling them to penetrate steel.
To use the Motorola system, customers must receive radio licenses from the F.C.C., even though the Altair's low-power signals cannot penetrate concrete or steel and are unlikely to escape a building.