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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 ...
A panel of the van's roof was cut away and covered over as a "hatch" to be open when the mortar bombs were launched. [1] [60] These improvised launchers were used in some "spectacular" incidents in Britain, such as the mortar attack on Downing street in February 1991 and the first attack on Heathrow airport in March 1994.
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.
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.
The Garland trench mortar was an improvised mortar used by Australian and British forces at Gallipoli during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915–16. Developed early in the war by Herbert Garland , a pre-war metallurgist and superintendent of laboratories at the Cairo Citadel , it was the most numerous mortar of the Gallipoli Campaign.
The Osnabrück mortar attack was an improvised mortar attack carried out by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit based in mainland Europe on 28 June 1996 against the British Army's Quebec Barracks at Osnabrück Garrison near Osnabrück, Germany.
Coastguard teams cordoned off the area where the suspicious item was discovered in Maryport, Cumbria
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 ...