explosives

Monster Machines: Nixing Iranian Nukes With America’s Biggest Bunker Buster

The GBU-57A-B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is 2400kg of high explosive wrapped in 13,600kg of steel. It’s designed to obliterate fortified positions and underground bunkers from the inside.


This Nexus 7 Reportedly Exploded While Charging

If you thought the Nexus 7 was a hot commodity, you’d be right. In one case in China, it was apparently so hot as to actually fry itself up.


What If Your Boarding Gate Doubled As A Bomb Detector?

Just when you thought you were free of airport security checkpoints once you reached your gate, Hitachi wants to make that the last line of defence for explosives detection. Working with the Nippon Signal Company and the University of Yamanashi it’s developed a high-speed gate detector that gives one last sniff for trouble as passengers board a plane.


Watch This Immense Housing Structure Explode On Google Earth

Glasgow’s Red Road tower block housing complex was constructed by the Glasgow Housing Associating (GHA) between 1964 and 1969, with the intention of providing a modern housing community for a whopping 5000 residents.


Colorado Considers Blowing Up Frozen Cow Carcasses

High in the Rocky Mountains, in Denver, Colorado, a group of ill-fated cows wandered through a snow storm and took shelter in an old ranger cabin. The cows died in that cabin, frozen solid, never again to see the light of day.


Navy GREMLIN Will Hunt Underground IEDs Like An Acoustic Truffle Pig

EOD personnel would have a hell of a lot easier time if people would stop burying their IEDs. But since that’s obviously not going to happen, Office of Naval Research is funding the development of an ordnance detection system that “sees” through the ground with sound waves.


Scientists Can Make Bomb Detectors With Inkjet Printers

When properly designed, explosives detection sensors are really expensive. But researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a cheap, ammonia-detecting sensor that can be manufactured with an inkjet printer and some paper.


Man Planned To Destroy Pentagon With Remote Aeroplanes

So what do you do when you’ve graduated university and sitting around Massachusetts? Conspire to blow up the two greatest symbols of American global power: the US Capitol and Pentagon. With a giant, C-4-laden toy plane.


Laser Can Detect Roadside Bombs From A Distance

Scientists have a new laser sensor they say can detect roadside bombs, the cause of more than half the soldier deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.


How Not To Air Your Grievances With The Banking Industry

Glenn Neff is not a happy camper. How do I know? Because he was just arrested driving a Jeep with a home-brew fireworks auto-cannon and plans to large amounts of shoot rockets at Capitol Hill. So yeah, just a bit pissed.


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