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Insensitive munitions are munitions that are designed to withstand stimuli representative of severe but credible accidents. The current range of stimuli are shock (from bullets, fragments and shaped charge jets), heat (from fires or adjacent thermal events) and adjacent detonating munitions.
The simplest form of artillery contact fuze is a soft metal nose to the shell, filled with a fulminating explosive such as lead azide. An example is the British World War II Fuze, Percussion, D.A., No. 233 [ 2 ] ('direct action') The primary explosive transmits its detonation to an explosive booster within the fuze, then in turn to the main ...
The term bomb is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as a "bomb". The military use of the term "bomb", or more specifically aerial bomb action, typically refers to airdropped, unpowered explosive weapons most ...
In explosives engineering, sensitivity refers to the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction. [1] Current in-use standard methods of mechanical (impact and friction) sensitivity determination differ by the sample preparation (constant mass or volume is usually used; pile or pressed pellet), sample arrangement (confined/unconfined sample etc), instrument type ...
Bomb cyclones form when the conditions at the surface and at the jet stream level are ideal for the storm to intensify. The jet stream is a narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere.
An example of a low-explosive train is a rifle cartridge, which consists of a primer consisting of a small amount of primary high explosive which initiates the explosive train; an igniter which is initiated by the primer and creates a flame that ignites the propellant
The Star Tribune was unable to reach representatives of Cook County Pride, which organizes the annual Pride event in Grand Marais and conducts educational outreach, social events and advocacy for ...
The first report, "Use of Uranium for a Bomb", discussed the feasibility of creating a super-bomb from uranium, which they now thought to be real. The second, "Use of Uranium as a Source of Power" discussed the idea of using uranium as a source of power, not just a bomb.