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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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    explosive devices include: Explosive weapon Anti-personnel mine Artillery shells Bomb Grenade Improvised explosive device Land mine Nuclear explosive...
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    interrelated functions in the military fields of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and improvised explosive device disposal (IEDD), and the public safety roles...
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    An explosive belt (also called suicide belt, suicide vest or bomb vest) is an improvised explosive device, a belt or a vest packed with explosives and...
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    truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile...
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    the Army. Like many other U.S. military manuals dealing with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unconventional warfare, it was declassified and released...
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  • Improvised nuclear devices (INDs) are theoretical illicit nuclear weapons bought, stolen, or otherwise originating from a nuclear state, or a weapon fabricated...
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    standoff detection of explosives and explosive precursor components and defeating the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) devices themselves as part of...
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    Yaroslav Moskalik (category Deaths by improvised explosive device)
    Balashikha, a suburb east of Moscow. According to reports, an improvised explosive device (IED) with shrapnel was detonated remotely in a parked car as...
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    Propane bomb (category Improvised explosive devices)
    bomb is a type of improvised explosive device which uses commercially available bottled gas cylinders, a kind of BLEVE. The devices have been used in...
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    — Rick Atkinson, The Washington Post EFPs have been used in improvised explosive devices against armoured cars, for example in the 1989 assassination...
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    dropped by aircraft with a delay to increase damage/disruption) Improvised explosive device ("home-made" bombs with a delay to allow the person placing the...
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  • Counter Improvised Explosive Device and EOD Working Groups. Explosive Ordnance Disposal has existed in various forms since the invention of explosives and...
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    usually soaked in alcohol or kerosene, rather than gasoline. An improvised explosive device (IED), also known as a roadside bomb, is a homemade bomb constructed...
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    9 hand grenades, also known as the "jam tins", are a type of improvised explosive device used by the British and Commonwealth forces, notably the Australian...
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  • medical responders. 2018 Sukma IED Attack: Maoists carried out an improvised explosive device (IED) attack on a mine-protected vehicle transporting CRPF personnel...
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  • Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former senior defense official using an explosive device, and The Jerusalem Post speculated that the pager explosions may have...
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    Pan Am Flight 103 (category Improvised explosive device bombings in the United Kingdom)
    whose job was to spot explosive devices under X-ray, told ABC News that she had first learned what Semtex (a plastic explosive) was during her ABC interview...
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  • On 29 October 2023, a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts took place during a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, a suburb...
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    Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) that deals with improvised threats such as the improvised explosive device (IEDs) and small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs)...
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  • 'Baloch Liberation Army' targeted Security Forces' vehicle with an improvised explosive device in general area Mach, Kachhi District". GlobalSecurity.org. 6...
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    high explosive munitions including other types of ordnance such as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons along with improvised explosive devices (IED)...
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  • tried to assassinate a Saudi prince, Muhammad bin Nayef, with an improvised explosive device that had been inserted into his rectum and anal canal. On 27...
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  • incidents in Pakistan in 2025 in chronological order. 4 January – An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a military convoy in Turbat, Balochistan...
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    2025 Machh bombing (category Improvised explosive device bombings in Pakistan)
    The 2025 Machh bombing was an improvised explosive device attack that occurred on May 6, 2025, in the Machh area of Kachhi District, Balochistan, Pakistan...
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    Acetone peroxide (category Explosive chemicals)
    needed] TATP has been used in bomb and suicide attacks and in improvised explosive devices, including the London bombings on 7 July 2005, where four suicide...
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    Pipe bomb (category Improvised explosive devices)
    A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device (IED) that uses a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material. The containment provided...
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    Army patrols encountered a potential improvised explosive device, they had to either wait for a specialist explosive ordnance disposal team with its specialist...
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    dismounted patrol on 27 November 2008 they were struck by an improvised explosive device (IED), killing Fussell. Two other soldiers received minor wounds...
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    Time bomb Improvised explosive device TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook Davis, Tenney L. (1943). The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives. Vol. I &...
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