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Barrack buster is the colloquial name given to several improvised mortars, developed in the 1990s by the engineering unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).. The improvised mortar properly called "barrack buster" - known to the British security forces as the Mark 15 mortar - fired a 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) long metal propane cylinder with a diameter of 36 centimetres (14 in), which ...
UDR patrols rounded up a Garand rifle and 27 improvised mortar shells in the surroundings of the Deanery the next morning. Two days later, a patrol from the 6 UDR Battalion thwarted a car bomb attack in Enniskillen. [6] Harry Baxter, 6 UDR Battalion commander, visited the barracks on the first hours of 3 May.
For the HE projectile an impact fuze was fitted in the nose of the bomb. Postwar, the two-inch mortar was kept in service to fire smoke and illuminating rounds. It was replaced by the Royal Ordnance 51 mm infantry mortar [4] in the late 1980s. Specifications. Calibre: 2 inches (50.8 mm) Length: 21 inches (53 cm) Weight: 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 pounds (4.8 kg)
A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, [1] while it was hovering over the helipad. Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded.
A single Mark-10 mortar bomb hit a portcabin in the local RUC base, killing nine constables, in what became the deadliest mortar shelling during the conflict. [83] On 29 July 1994, two mortars launched from another truck hit the security complex in Newry again, this time wounding three soldiers, three RUC constables and 38 civilians. [84]
The first professional civilian bomb squad was established by Colonel Sir Vivian Dering Majendie a Major at the time in the Royal Artillery, Majendie investigated an explosion on 2 October 1874 in the Regent's Canal, when the barge 'Tilbury', carrying six barrels of petroleum and five tons of gunpowder, blew up, killing the crew and destroying Macclesfield Bridge and cages at nearby London Zoo.
Coastguard teams cordoned off the area where the suspicious item was discovered in Maryport, Cumbria
Bomb disposal robots, John Deere Gators and Segways are also in use with Ordnance Corps EOD teams. Teams can be dispatched on helicopters via the Air Corps if there is a need. [9] In the year ending 2014, Irish Army EOD squads were called out to 141 domestic incidents, 53 of which involved viable improvised explosive devices. [10]