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Calibres meaning
plural of calibre
Example sentences (6)
During a search of the car, police allegedly located ammunition of various calibres.
Similarly, he added that operatives have successfully recovered 16 firearms of various types along with 226 ammunition of diverse calibres.
All semi-automatic rifles with a capacity greater than 3 rounds, all handguns and all rifles chambered in 'military' calibres, including bolt action, require permits.
Britain adopted this solution for several smaller calibres (below 6-inch) but by World War I few if any such shells remained.
Some modern accounts claim that the Jacobite artillery suffered from having cannon with different calibres of shot.
While information on the Wehrmacht 's use of the Krag–Jørgensen is hard to find, it must be assumed that it was issued primarily to second line units since the Wehrmacht attempted to only issue firearms in standard calibres to front line troops.