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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 ...
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 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]
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.
Madliena Fougasse in Malta [1]. A fougasse (UK: / f uː ˈ ɡ æ s /, US: / f uː ˈ ɡ ɑː s /) is an improvised mortar constructed by making a hollow in the ground or rock and filling it with explosives (originally, black powder) and projectiles.
Lob bombs are often made from metal propane tanks that have been drained of their fuel and filled with explosives and fragmentation material. A lob bomb (known officially as an improvised rocket-assisted mortar, [1] improvised rocket-assisted munition, [2] or IRAM) [1] is a rocket-fired improvised explosive device made from a large metal canister (often a propane gas tank that has been drained ...
Coastguard teams cordoned off the area where the suspicious item was discovered in Maryport, Cumbria
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.