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More than two-thirds of the combat deaths in Iraq by 2007 were caused by IEDs.
"Nail bomb" as used by rioters in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s.
Blast or "offensive" grenades (A) have a limited danger-zone, and can thus be used safely by troops attacking in the open.
The relative ineffective power of HME was countered by packing several hundred pounds into a gas cylinder in a car or a series of milk churns placed in a culvert under a road and detonated from firing points across the border. [...] After the Warrenpoint ambush in 1979, restrictions on military vehicle movement meant that the bases were reliant on helicopter support
According to Newsweek, US intelligence officials report that al Qaeda's explosives expert Ibrahim al-Asiri and medical doctors have been designing bombs to be surgically implanted into the bodies of suicide bombers. The idea is that the technique would somehow foil airport scanners. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "You da bomb!"
The EFP is one of the most lethal IEDs encountered in Iraq.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Another carbamate, Aldicarb, is a commonly used insecticide, but it has relatively high mammalian toxicity for both oral and dermal routes. For experimental animals (e.g., rodents), the average lethal dose of Aldicarb is hundreds of times lower (meaning that Aldicarb is hundreds of times more toxic in mammals) than Sevin. In the potential application as a weapon of mass destruction, it is possible that terrorists could divert Aldicarb or other toxic compounds like it into some sort of improvised chemical weapon. [...] It is not known if modern militaries have continued the production or deployment of chemical weapons using DFP. Its relatively low toxicity probably means that it is not favored by state programs. Terrorists, however, may consider the use of DFP in an improvised chemical weapon. [...] The use of methyl parathion in the United States is, as of this writing in 2003, restricted to only selected applications for outdoor crop protection. Parathion has also been restricted or outlawed in several countries that once manufactured it in large quantities, including Russia, China, and India. Still, there is a risk that remaining and obsolete stocks of parathion might be used by terrorists or criminals in some sort of improvised weapon. During the apartheid era in South Africa, parathion may have been utilized as an assassination weapon against political targets. In 2003, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mentioned parathion among other possible toxic chemicals that could be utilized by terrorists, including al-Qaeda. A CIA pamphlet notes: "Organophosphate pesticides such as parathion are in the same chemical class as nerve agents.Although these pesticides are much less toxic, their effects and medical treatments are the same as for military-grade nerve agents" (CIA, p. 4).
The fact that glanders is highly dangerous to handle, even in facilities as sophisticated as USAMRIID, means that accidental infections are likely to occur if it is handled in improvised or amateur biological weapons facilities. Even a single case of human glanders should act as a very important "sentinel event" for identifying clandestine bioweapons activities or an intentional BW release. If the low-virulence strains now circulating are modified to develop increased virulence, glanders could become the basis of a biological weapon.
IEDs might also contain incendiary materials to produce chemical reactions that spread fire rapidly.
The incendiary device was probably most effective when used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) during the period 1970 to 1990, in what was referred to as 'the troubles'. Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), which use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Though colloquially often known as bombs, they are not explosives but in fact are designed to slow the process of chemical reactions and use ignition rather than detonation to start and or maintain the reaction.
Improvised nuclear devices—sometimes referred to as "crude nuclear weapons"—are simple, unsophisticated atomic bombs. They would probably utilize a gun-type device to create a critical mass and explosive yield. Although these weapons will probably not be based on complicated designs that use a combination of nuclear fission and fusion to boost the nuclear explosive yield of a weapon to extremely high levels, they could have an explosive yield of up to a few tens of kilotons. [...] If terrorists were to construct their own nuclear weapons, they would probably select a gun-type device. This type of weapon is easy to construct, and terrorists would probably not be attracted to more efficient ways of creating a critical mass to generate high yields.
DBIED — Donkey Borne IED
Insurgents used animal carcasses to hide IEDs
Explosives accounted for over two thirds of the casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly caused by IEDs.
In Iraq some Shīʿite militia groups used explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) [...] to destroy even the most heavily armoured vehicles, such as M1 Abrams tanks.
IEDs can also contain radiological, chemical, or biological components to increase their lethal and psychological effects.
Experts and intelligence sources say the terrorists could use the powerful explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate, known as PETN and insert it in the bodies of would-be suicide bombers. According to reports they would then be able to detonate the implanted explosives via injections. The bombs would not be detectable to airport body scanner, increasing risks of attacks similar to the 2011 September attack on the Twin Towers in New York and on the Pentagon.
In Unconventional Warfare operations it may be impossible or unwise to use conventional military munitions as tools in the conduct of certain missions. It may be necessary instead to fabricate the required munitions from locally available or unassuming materials.
MI6 chiefs believe doctors have been trained to plant explosives inside the breasts of female suicide bombers.
Security has been beefed up after intelligence al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on airlines flying out of London.
Newsweek has learned that U.S. intelligence officials circulated a secret report that laid out in vivid detail how doctors working for al-Asiri had developed the surgical technique. An American government source familiar with the report described it as 15 to 20 pages, single spaced, and replete with schematics and pictures. "It was almost like something you'd see in Scientific American," the source said.
Some sophisticated EFPs have been shown to be effective at ranges exceeding 100 meters.
In Unconventional Warfare operations it may be impossible or unwise to use conventional military munitions as tools in the conduct of certain missions. It may be necessary instead to fabricate the required munitions from locally available or unassuming materials.
Some sophisticated EFPs have been shown to be effective at ranges exceeding 100 meters.
In Iraq some Shīʿite militia groups used explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) [...] to destroy even the most heavily armoured vehicles, such as M1 Abrams tanks.
IEDs can also contain radiological, chemical, or biological components to increase their lethal and psychological effects.
Newsweek has learned that U.S. intelligence officials circulated a secret report that laid out in vivid detail how doctors working for al-Asiri had developed the surgical technique. An American government source familiar with the report described it as 15 to 20 pages, single spaced, and replete with schematics and pictures. "It was almost like something you'd see in Scientific American," the source said.
According to Newsweek, US intelligence officials report that al Qaeda's explosives expert Ibrahim al-Asiri and medical doctors have been designing bombs to be surgically implanted into the bodies of suicide bombers. The idea is that the technique would somehow foil airport scanners. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "You da bomb!"
Experts and intelligence sources say the terrorists could use the powerful explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate, known as PETN and insert it in the bodies of would-be suicide bombers. According to reports they would then be able to detonate the implanted explosives via injections. The bombs would not be detectable to airport body scanner, increasing risks of attacks similar to the 2011 September attack on the Twin Towers in New York and on the Pentagon.
MI6 chiefs believe doctors have been trained to plant explosives inside the breasts of female suicide bombers.
Security has been beefed up after intelligence al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on airlines flying out of London.