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    C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed...
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  • include: Composition C-1, Composition C-2, Composition C-3, and Composition C-4. The term Composition is used for any explosive material compounded from...
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    known as putty explosives. Plastic explosives are especially suited for explosive demolition. Common plastic explosives include Semtex and C-4. The first...
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  • C4 (redirect from C-4)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. C4, C04, C.IV, C-4, or C-04 often refers to the explosive. It may refer to: Caldwell 4 or NGC 7023 or Iris Nebula, a reflection...
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  • An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released...
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    are fuse wells set at 45°. Internally the mine contains a layer of C-4 explosive behind a matrix of about seven hundred 1⁄8-inch-diameter (3 mm) steel...
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    High Explosive Squash Head (HESH) demolition projectile distances up to 2,400 m (2,600 yd). The HESH shell contains 18 kg (40 lb) of C-4 explosive. The...
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    Detonator (redirect from Explosive primer)
    A detonator is a device used to make an explosive or explosive device explode. Detonators come in a variety of types, depending on how they are initiated...
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  • kilograms) of C-4 explosive. The plan was to move the robot to a point against a wall facing Johnson and then detonate the explosives. The device exploded...
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    mixtures with other explosives and plasticizers or phlegmatizers (desensitizers); it is the explosive agent in C-4 plastic explosive and a key ingredient...
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    (127mm) MK22 Mod 4 rocket. The line charge is 350 feet (107 meters) long and contains 5 pounds (2.27 kg) per linear foot of C-4 explosive. If a MICLIC fails...
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  • Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix...
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  • Irish, and Hannah decide to board Chang's warship and destroy it with C-4 explosives. However, when they fail to detonate, Irish and Hannah each volunteer...
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    An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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  • hydrochloric acid gas inside the refinery. He then plants a series of C-4 explosive charges onto several oil tanks and in the control room and sets them...
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    Larry Flynt (redirect from Larry C. Flynt)
    had asked mercenary Mitchell WerBell III to rig his wheelchair with C-4 explosives so he could blow himself up during that same hearing, taking all of...
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    Ali Abdullah Saleh (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
    was injured in a bomb attack on his presidential compound. Multiple C-4 explosive charges were planted inside the mosque and one exploded when the president...
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  • Nitroguanidine (category Explosive chemicals)
    solid that melts at 257 °C and decomposes at 254 °C. Nitroguanidine is an extremely insensitive but powerful high explosive. Wetting it with > 20 wt.-%...
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    self-proclaimed Al Qaeda member Richard Reid attempted to detonate the C-4 explosive PETN concealed in his shoes while on a flight from Paris to Miami. He...
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    vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. This allows the chemical...
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  • Examples of explosives used in bursting charges are TNT Composition B Ammonal Semtex RDX HMX ETN PETN C-4 Other suitable Binary explosives main charge...
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    (127 mm) Mk22 Mod 4 rocket. The line charge is 350 feet (107 meters) long and contains 5 pounds (2.27 kg) per linear foot of C-4 explosive. In the event a...
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    Remotec ANDROS Mark V-A bomb disposal robot, which carried a pound of C-4 explosive. On July 11, 2016, inmate Larry Darnell Gordon opened fire on the third...
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    High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. The warhead functions...
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    J. (2001). C-4/tnt equivalency (Technical report). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. EMPE-01-81. Cooper, Paul W. (1996). Explosives Engineering...
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  • torpedo juice is two parts ethyl alcohol and three parts pineapple juice. C-4 (explosive) § Vietnam War, where it would be chewed for a high McIntosh, Gary L...
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  • Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a...
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    charge system (LDCS): rockets carrying C-4 explosives up to 100–150 yards forward, detonating hidden explosives at a safe distance, so that troops and...
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  • dealers, including Salvadorian kingpin Tony Salvano, Toscani finds C-4 explosives. Shortly afterward, the men that Toscani and Jackson arrested are released...
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  • A binary explosive or two-component explosive is an explosive consisting of two components, neither of which is explosive by itself, which have to be mixed...
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