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Parent topics
- Explosives [r]: Explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitroglycerin. [e]
- Demolitions [r]: The engineering discipline of demolishing and clearing structures that are no longer needed, in both military and civilian contexts [e]
Subtopics
- Mine (land warfare) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M58 mine clearing line charge [r]: U.S. Army rocket-propelled line charge for blasting safe lanes through minefields, launched from a towed trailer [e]
- Assault Breacher Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Detonating cord [r]: A fuse with an extremely high, explosive-range propagation velocity, used for the essentially simultaneous triggering of explosive charges or to deliver a long, narrow blast; typically a fabric or plastic jacket filled with PETN or PBXN-8 and initiated with a blasting cap [e]
- PETN [r]: Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, used as an initiating explosive and as a vasodilator for various heart diseases [e]
- Composition C-4 [r]: The standard U.S. military plastic explosive, principally for demolitions but also used in some munitions such as the M18A1 Claymore mine; contains 91% RDX, 2.1% polyisobutylene rubber, 1.6% motor oil, and 5.3% 2-ethylhexyl sebacate. [e]
- PBXN-8 [r]: An insensitive high explosive, used in detonating cord, made from RDX (explosive), stearic acid, hydroxyethyl cellulose, tributyl phosphate and ammonium hydroxide [e]
- RDX (explosive) [r]: "Royal Demolition eXplosive" or "Research Department eXplosive", also known as Hexogen or Cyclonite; chemically hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine; considered the most powerful common military explosive; a member of the nitramine class of organic nitrate explosives [e]