U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook
U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook

Author: Department of the Army

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1510720561

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You don’t need to be a trained soldier to fully appreciate this edition of the U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook (TM 31-210). Originally created for soldiers in guerilla warfare situations, this handbook demonstrates the techniques for constructing weapons that are highly effective in the most harrowing of circumstances. Straightforward and incredibly user-friendly, it provides insightful information and step-by-step instructions on how to assemble weapons and explosives from common and readily available materials. Over 600 illustrations complement elaborate explanations of how to improvise any number of munitions from easily accessible resources. Whether you’re a highly trained solider or simply a civilian looking to be prepared, the U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook is an invaluable addition to your library.

The Preparatory Manual of Explosives
The Preparatory Manual of Explosives

Author: Jared Ledgard

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-11-25

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781790329137

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The Preparatory Manual of Explosives: Radical, Extreme, Experimental Explosives Chemistry Vol.1 is broken down into Section 1: a) Introduction; b) Dual bonding; c) The Element Nitrogen; d) The element oxygen; e) The element chlorine; f) Introduction to filtration; 1) Gravity filtration; a) Fluting Filter Paper for use in gravity filtration; 2) Vacuum Filtration (suction filtration); a) General Laboratory Techniques: Methods of heating; 1) Free flame; 2) Steam bath, or water bath; 3) Oil bath; 4) Electric Heating Mantles; 5) Hot Plates; a) Methods of Cooling; 1) Cold water bath; 2) Ice water bath; 3) Standard ice bath; 4) Salt/ice bath; 5) Dry ice/acetone bath; a) Cooling tricks of the trade; b) Recrystallization, and solid product recovery; c) Recrystallization; 1) General recrystallization utilizing heat only; a) Working example of recrystallization using heat only; 2) Recrystallization using seed crystals; 3) Recovering the product through low heat and vacuum; a) Washing liquids; b) Washing solids using non-vacuum techniques; c) Washing solids using vacuum techniques; d) Drying solids; e) Drying liquids to remove water; f) Laboratory safety; g) Laboratory glassware; h) Laboratory equipment; Section 2: Intermediates, Reagents, and Solvents; Section 3: Experimental Explosives Chemistry; Theoretical Preparation 1: 1,3,5-trinitrohexazinane; Azinane; Theoretical Preparation 2: trisodium hexazinane-1,3,5-triide; SOD; Theoretical Preparation 3: 3,3',3''-hexazinane-1,3,5-triyltris(triaza-1,2-dien-2-ium-1-ide); HEXAAZIDE; HTA; Theoretical Preparation 4: diammonium trioxidane-1,3-diide; diammonium trioxide; DATD; Theoretical Preparation 5: 3,3'-trioxidane-1,3-diylbis(triaza-1,2-dien-2-ium-1-ide); TDTD; Theoretical Preparation 6: benzene-1,3,5-triyltris(chlorane) nonaoxide; BTCN; Chlorane; Theoretical Preparation 7: 2,4,6-trinitro-1,3,5,2,4,6-trioxatriazinane; TNTOTA; oxatriazinane; Theoretical Preparation 8: (2,4,6-trinitrobenzene-1,3,5-triyl)tris(chlorane) nonaoxide; Chlorane; Theoretical Preparation 9: 1,3,5-triazido-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene; Nitrazide; TATNB; Theoretical Preparation 10: 1,3,5-trinitrohexasilinane; nitrosilane; 2-TNHS; Theoretical Preparation 11: 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-tris(nitrooxy)hexasilinane-1,3,5-triium; TNNHS; Si-135; Theoretical Preparation 12: 1,3,5-trinitrohexaphosphinane; TNHP; High Explosive Phosphorus; Theoretical Preparation 13: pentanitro-l5-phosphane; 5-PNP; Theoretical Preparation 14: trinitroamine oxide; TNAOX; NITROXIDE; Theoretical Preparation 15: pentachloryl-l5-phosphane; Theoretical Preparation 16: Tetranitrodiborane; TNDB; Nitro Boron; Theoretical Preparation 17: 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexanitrocyclohexaborane; KNCHB; 6-Nitrocycloborane; Theoretical Preparation 18: N'-perchlorylperchloric hydrazide; N'PCPH, Perchloryl hydrazine; Theoretical Preparation 19: tetranitrohydrazine; TNH-X; Theoretical Preparation 20: hexaaza-1,2,4,5-tetraene-2,5-diium-1,6-diide; Hexazide; HTDD; Theoretical Preparation 21: hexaazidobenzene; HAAB; 6-Azide; Theoretical Preparation 22: 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexanitro-1l4,2l4,3l4,4l4,5l4,6l4-hexathiine; Nitro hexathiine; Gamma-HNH; Theoretical Preparation 23: pentakis(dioxidobromanyl)-l5-chlorane; Chlorane; pentabromate chloride; PDDBC; Theoretical Preparation 24: hexa-1,3,5-triyne-1,6-diyl dinitrate; HTDD; poly acetylene dinitrate; Theoretical Preparation 25: 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexanitrohexa-1,3,5-triene-1,6-diyl dinitrate; HNHTDD; Hexanitro-Triene; Triene dinitrate; Theoretical Preparation 26: (1Z,3E,5Z)-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexaazidohexa-1,3,5-triene-1,6-diyl dinitrate; EZ-Azido Triene; HAHTDN; Theoretical Preparation 27: 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexafluoro-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexaperchlorylhexane-1,6-diyl dinitrate; Fluoroperchlorylhexane; HFGPHDD; Theoretical Preparation 28: 3,3':4',3''-ter-1,2-dioxetane-4,4''-diyl dinitrate; Dioxetane; Dioxetane dinitrate; ter-DDD; Theoretical Preparation 29: 2H,3'H,3"H-2,2':3',2"-teraluminum-3,3"-diyl dinitrate; Aluminum-3H-dinitrate; Aluminum-3-3-dinitrate; 2H'3H'-Aluminum d

IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets
IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets

Author: A. R. Oppenheimer

Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1788550188

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In this groundbreaking title, A. R. Oppenheimer tells how the Irish Republican Army became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise – and how, after generations of conflict, it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details, and an analysis of the IRA’s mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, Oppenheimer vividly presents the story behind the bombs – those who built and deployed them; those who had to deal with and dismantle them; and those who suffered or died from them. He analyses where, how, and why the IRA’s 19,000 bombs were built, targeted and deployed, and explores what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivaled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence. Beginning with the Fenian ‘Dynamiters’ in the second half of the nineteenth century, Oppenheimer fully describes and assesses the impact of the pre-1970s bombing campaigns in Northern Ireland and England and the evolution of strategies and tactics during the Troubles. He concludes with the decommissioning of an arsenal big enough to arm several battalions – which included an entire home-crafted missile system, an unsurpassed range of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and enough explosives to blow up several urban centres. The author scrutinises the level of deadly improvisation that became the hallmark of the Provisional IRA’s expertise and the ingenuity in its pioneering IED timing, delay and disguise technologies, and follows the arms race it carried on with the British Army and security services in a long war of mutual assured disruption. He also provides an insight into the bombing equipment and guns in the vast IRA inventory held at Irish Police HQ in Dublin.