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Explosives are still on site posing a risk, their removal is planned to begin in 2030 and last 10 years. Prüm, Germany, 15 July 1949, a French Army depot with 500 tons of ammunition explodes, 12 killed; South Amboy powder pier explosion, New Jersey, 1950; Explosion of RFA Bedenham, 27 April 1951 explosion of an ammunition ship in the Port of ...
The missile is considered to be very accurate, with an accuracy believed to match that of the company's other anti-tank missile, the Ingwe, at around 300 mm CEP at maximum range. [ 3 ] It also has a long range for an anti-tank missile; at 10 km (6.2 mi) it is greater than the published range of most current competitors, including the Hellfire .
Ogbunigwe, also called Ojukwu Bucket, was a series of weapons systems including command detonation mines, improvised explosive devices, and rocket-propelled missiles, mass-produced by the Republic of Biafra and used against Nigeria between 1967 and 1970 in the Nigerian Civil War.
Warhead uses a stand-off probe, which is located on the ogive of the projectile, to penetrate the armour. 95 mm High Explosive Anti-Tank anti-armour warhead An upgraded warhead capable of penetrating 710 mm of rolled homogeneous armour. It is less expensive to produce than the 92 mm warhead. 94 mm High Explosive Multi-Purpose warhead
The current model produced by the Russian Federation is the RPG-7V2, capable of firing standard and dual high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds, high explosive/fragmentation, and thermobaric warheads, with a UP-7V sighting device fitted (used in tandem with the standard 2.7× PGO-7 optical sight) to allow the use of extended range ammunition.
Nigeria and South Africa face off for a place in the Africa Cup of Nations final in their last four clash at the Stade de la Paix on Wednesday (5pm, BBC Two, Sky Sports Main Event).
It is an aluminized (powdered aluminum) explosive having the same order of sensitivity as Composition B. [1]Tests indicate that it is about 98% to 100% as powerful as Torpex, that it is definitely less sensitive than Torpex in both laboratory impact and bullet impact, that it is slightly more sensitive in these respects than TNT, and that it is about the same order as Composition B. [2]
- M48 ATACMS deliver a single, 500-pound (230-kg) high-explosive warhead at a range of 70 to 300 km (40 to 190 miles). The explosion sends hundreds of thousands of fragments across its target area.