A report on Improvised explosive device
Bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.
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Land mine
4 linksExplosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.
Explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.
Overlapping both categories is the improvised explosive device (IED), which is "a device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating explosive material, destructive, lethal, noxious, incendiary, pyrotechnic materials or chemicals designed to destroy, disfigure, distract or harass. They may incorporate military stores, but are normally devised from non-military components."
Car bomb
3 linksA car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Fragmentation (weaponry)
3 linksFragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, or autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or shattered by the detonation of the explosive filler.
Booby trap
3 linksDevice or setup that is intended to kill, harm, or surprise a human or another animal.
Device or setup that is intended to kill, harm, or surprise a human or another animal.
It can also be triggered by vehicles driving along a road, as in the case of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Bomb
2 linksExplosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
Explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
For instance, in recent Middle Eastern conflicts, homemade bombs called "improvised explosive devices" (IEDs) have been employed by insurgent fighters to great effectiveness.
Bomb disposal
4 linksExplosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe.
Explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe.
Royal Navy clearance divers also deploy teams both in the UK and on operations working on both IEDD (Improvised Explosive Device Disposal) teams as well as the disposal of conventional munitions.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
3 linksIrish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent, socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.
Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent, socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.
The next most important department was engineering, which manufactured improvised explosive devices and improvised mortars.
Anti-tank mine
3 linksType of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armored fighting vehicles.
Type of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armored fighting vehicles.
This self forging projectile principle has been used for some French and Soviet off route mines and has earned infamy as an improvised explosive devices (IED) technique in Israel and especially Iraq.
Islamic State
2 linksMilitant Islamist group and former unrecognized quasi-state that follows the Salafi jihadist branch of Sunni Islam.<ref name=Wahhabism>
Militant Islamist group and former unrecognized quasi-state that follows the Salafi jihadist branch of Sunni Islam.<ref name=Wahhabism>
The group uses truck and car bombs, suicide bombers and IEDs, and has used chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria.
Ammunition technician
2 linksBritish Army soldier, formerly of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps but since 1993 of the Royal Logistic Corps, trained to inspect, repair, test, store, and modify all ammunition, guided missiles, and explosives used by the British Army.
British Army soldier, formerly of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps but since 1993 of the Royal Logistic Corps, trained to inspect, repair, test, store, and modify all ammunition, guided missiles, and explosives used by the British Army.
After gaining sufficient experience, those who show the appropriate qualities are given extra training to render safe improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by a process called improvised explosive device disposal.