I am NOT a 'military explosives' type,....all of my experience civilian,... would like to clarify some nomenclature here, and appreciate your expertise.
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High explosives would be anything falling into a detonation velocity of 3200-30000 fps. They are cap sensitive and don't require any confinement. There may be some definition differences between civ and mil that is causing our classification disagreement.
Are you familiar with the BLU-82 or Daisy Cutter? It was filled with ammonium nitrate and aluminum (Ammonal)(Tannerite).
At the rate this stuff is going I fear a war will be fought on this soil in short order?
The way every level of government denies any association of these attacks to muslims or islamist terrorism, it will have to be us doing the fighting back. Powers that be are wedded to the 'peaceful' muslim world view, and are more likely to come after Americans practicing self defense.
There's a video somewhere of some inbred shooting a lawnmower or something loaded with tannerite and the explosion blows the idiot's leg off. He looked to be some distance away too.
The dipschit was only 75 feet away with 3 pounds of tannerite in the mower. Link.
There it is, thanks. And idiots like these make is SO important for this stuff to be around? I have no need for this stuff, but I'm sure someone here does.
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Seems like I remember a video posted somewhere (maybe on here) that showed a bunch of pigs getting blown up using tannerite. I've also seen one where a guy took down an old building (barn, I think) with a bunch of tannerite.
There's a video somewhere of some inbred shooting a lawnmower or something loaded with tannerite and the explosion blows the idiot's leg off. He looked to be some distance away too.
The dipschit was only 75 feet away with 3 pounds of tannerite in the mower. Link.
Tannerite is not a "low order" explosive. It is a very popular, powerful explosive used by terrorists all over the world.
Edit: Just read that the suspect is from Afghanistan. Guess what explosive they liked to use in their IEDs.
To add to the above post by Chris, Tannerite is a small step away from ANFO/ANNM , probably one of the mostly widely used explosives in the world... still not high explosive in the manner of C4/SEMTEX , but very effective as an IED when detonated correctly.
Edited to add, using a pressure cooker to boost the explosion is very much straight from Afghanistan....
You're right, it's not a high explosive. The Los Alamos guys measured a detonation rate on the order of 3,700 m/s depending. All I can say is I must have gotten a bad number somewhere, like over twice that. Went to the source this time.
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