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A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated. Cluster bomb: Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb: Germany: General-purpose bomb: Glide bomb: Guided bomb: Improvised explosive device: Land mine: Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. 1832 Ming Dynasty: Laser guided bomb ...
This category contains explosive devices, chemical agents, types of explosives, and similar matters. Subcategories. This category has the following 23 subcategories ...
A typical cherry bomb contains a core of explosive composition (e.g., flash powder or, less commonly, black powder) which is generally encapsulated inside two nested paper cups, typically of the type used to plug the ends of an M-80, which is in turn most commonly surrounded by a layer (approx. one-quarter inch thick) of sawdust infused with a ...
An explosive weapon generally uses high explosive to project blast and often fragmentation from a point of detonation. Explosive weapons may be subdivided by their method of manufacture into explosive ordnance and improvised explosive devices . When explosive weapons fail to function as designed they are often left as unexploded ordnance.
Two explosive devices were discovered at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday and Monday, prompting partial evacuations, the police said.
2022 Bogoso explosion – A truck carrying mining explosives collided with a motorcycle destroying much of the village. [187] 14 February 2022 France: Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque: 8 30 Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque explosion – a multi-family residential building was destroyed in an explosion. [188] [189] [190] 21 February 2022 Burkina Faso ...
A Florida man was arrested after allegedly hiding radio-controlled explosive devices in the restrooms of a casino, local authorities said. Bryan Robert Eckley, 46, of Tampa, has been charged with ...
Tertiary explosives, also called blasting agents, are so insensitive to shock that they cannot be reliably detonated by practical quantities of primary explosive, and instead require an intermediate explosive booster of secondary explosive. These are often used for safety and the typically lower costs of material and handling.