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The chassis of a civilian Land Rover 109 station wagon was used. Underneath the standard aluminium roof a second roof, fabricated from armoured steel, was installed. This provided overhead protection from gunfire, petrol bombs and IEDs. Large plates of ballistic steel were bolted to the sides of the vehicle, which wrapped around the rear pillar ...
The Finnish perfected the design and tactical use of the petrol bomb. The fuel for the Molotov cocktail was refined to a slightly sticky mixture of alcohol, kerosene, tar, and potassium chlorate. Further refinements included the attachment of wind-proof matches or a phial of chemicals that would ignite on breakage, thereby removing the need to ...
A vehicle-borne IED, or VBIED, is a military term for a car bomb or truck bomb but can be any type of transportation such as a bicycle, motorcycle, donkey (DBIED [16]), etc. They are typically employed by insurgents, in particular ISIS, [citation needed] and can carry a relatively large payload. They can also be detonated from a remote location.
Officers found the remains of socks – used as wicks to light the bombs – so visited local shops and petrol stations in the area to search CCTV footage of people buying these items.
Car bomb in Iraq, made up of a number of artillery shells concealed in the back of a pickup truck. Car bombs are effective weapons as they are an easy way to transport a large number of explosives to a target. A car bomb also produces copious shrapnel, or flying debris, and secondary damage to bystanders and buildings. In recent years, car ...
Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. 1950s Thermometric bomb: Also called a vacuum bomb, or aerosol bomb, this explosive disperses a cloud of gas or liquid. Time bomb: A bomb that is triggered by the timer. Trinitrotoluene: Commonly known as TNT. 1863 Julius Wilbrand: Germany: Unguided bomb: An air-craft dropped bomb that lacks a ...
The 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt was an attempted terrorist attack using propane tanks in an improvised car bomb. The perpetrator Faisal Shahzad admitted that he had trained at a Pakistani terrorist training camp prior to the attack, [6] and said he wanted revenge against the United States for drone strikes in Pakistan. [7]
The CBU-72 consisted of three fuel-air explosive (FAE) submunitions. Each submunition weighed about 100 pounds (45 kg) and dispensed a cloud approximately 60 feet (18 m) in diameter and 8 feet (2.4 m) high, composed of its 75 pounds (34 kg) of ethylene oxide aerosol fuel across the target area, with air-burst fusing set for 30 feet (9.1 m). [1]