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Unnecessary pedantry. You know what the title meant.

It's the kinetic energy of a HEAT round that damages a tank too, but that's not classified as a KEW either, since a KEW is where the sole damage done is by the energy of a projectile (and a HEAT round it's the chemical energy in the round that produces most of the damage, after being converted to thermal and kinetic energy).

I will propose that (generally speaking) a projectile has mass, which would exclude photons from the definition.

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