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McClane finds the detonator codes and defuses the explosives, saving his daughter. Lucy takes her father to the roof, where Piet and Frontier are waiting for a helicopter to escape. McClane catches up to the two on the helipad, and as Piet is about to shoot McClane dead, Frontier shoots Piet from behind, fulfilling his promise to betray his boss.
During the second year of the Iraq War, a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team with Bravo Company identifies and attempts to destroy an improvised explosive device with a robot, but the wagon carrying the trigger charge breaks. Team leader Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson places the charge by hand, but is killed when an Iraqi insurgent ...
Tovex Firebreak II used on Upper Bear Creek Trail in the Angeles National Forest. Tovex (also known as Trenchrite, Seismogel, and Seismopac) is a water-gel explosive composed of ammonium nitrate and methylammonium nitrate that has several advantages over traditional dynamite, including lower toxicity and safer manufacture, transport, and storage.
Several underground explosive charges were fired during the First World War at the start of the Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917).The battle was fought by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer) and the German 4th Army (General Friedrich Sixt von Armin) near Mesen (Messines in French, also used in English and German) in Belgian West Flanders.
Diethyl azodicarboxylate, conventionally abbreviated as DEAD and sometimes as DEADCAT, [6] [7] is an organic compound with the structural formula CH 3 CH 2 −O−C(=O)−N=N−C(=O)−O−CH 2 CH 3. Its molecular structure consists of a central azo functional group , RN=NR, flanked by two ethyl ester groups.
David Familglietti of New Frontier said that Paddock purchased a rifle and a shotgun in the spring and that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives interviewed the ...
The newspaper reports that a local judge officially declared Charles dead in absentia after he hadn’t been seen for roughly 10 years, as theories swirled about where he'd gone.
It was estimated that more than 600 pounds (270 kg) of explosives were used. [10] Nearly 300 people had been watching the game when the blast happened. [11] Among the dead were six children and five paramilitary soldiers. [12] The remaining fatalities were mostly spectating teenagers. [7]