High Explosive Incendiary / Armor Piercing Ammunition combines a tungsten carbide penetrator with an incendiary and explosive tip.

Explosive bullets were not produced in the UK after 1933 due to the relatively small amount of explosive that could be contained in the bullet, limiting their effectiveness, their role being taken by the use of Mark 6 and 7 incendiary bullets.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge is a military badge of the United States armed forces which recognizes those service members, qualified as explosive ordnance disposal ( EOD ) technicians, who are specially trained to deal with the construction, deployment, disarmament, and disposal of high explosive munitions and may include other types of ordnance such as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons along with improvised explosive devices ( IED ) and improvised nuclear devices ( IND ).

The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Defence Group ( abbreviation: CBRE ; Chinese: 生化武器 、 辐射性物质及爆炸物防御团 ) is a group formed by various Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) units to enhance counter-terrorism capabilities and provide an immediate response in the event of chemical and biological incidents.

The group consists of two battalions from the Singapore Combat Engineers — the 36th and the 39th, specializing in Explosive Ordnance Disposal and chemical, biological and radiological defence respectively.

United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians render safe all types of ordnance, including improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear.

* 17 January-Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Defence Group conducts Exercise Diamond Shield to demonstrate chemical and biological defence capability.

People working in industry, the military and first responders must wear Personal Protective Equipment ( PPE ) to protect themselves from hazardous threats such as chemical agents, gases, fire, small arms and even Improvised Explosive Devices ( IEDs ).

For pure chemical explosives, see: Category: Explosive chemicals.

Explosive gases, vapors and dusts have different chemical properties that affect the likelihood and severity of an explosion.

Explosive reactive armour has been valued by the Soviet Union and its now-independent component states since the 1980s, and almost every tank in the eastern-European military inventory today has either been manufactured to use ERA or had ERA tiles added to it, including even the T-55 and T-62 tanks built forty to fifty years ago, but still used today by reserve units.

* Explosive reactive armour, a type of vehicle armour

Explosive reactive armour ( ERA ) kits are also fitted as necessary.

Explosive reactive armour is available as an option.

** Explosive reactive armour ( ERA ) protection, fire suppression system, NBC suite

It has a range of about 2500 m and is capable of defeating explosive-reactive armour with a tandem High Explosive Anti Tank ( HEAT ) warhead.

An AMX-30B2 BRENUS, note the number of Reactive armour # Explosive reactive armour | ERA blocks mounted on the turret.

Explosive reactive armour, initially developed by German researcher Manfred Held while working in Israel, uses layers of high explosive sandwiched between steel plates.

The Mokopa uses a powerful tandem shaped-charge, high explosive anti-tank ( HEAT ) warhead, capable of penetrating over 1, 350 mm ( almost 4½ ft ) of Rolled homogeneous armour ( RHA ), and also effective against Explosive Reactive Armour ( ERA ).

Though the experience of limited conflicts such as the insurgency in Iraq rarely involves combat between armoured vehicles, the lack of security has resulted in the application of armour to light vehicles, and the continued use of armoured transports, fighting vehicles and tanks to protect against ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices ( IEDs ).

Explosive shells replaced solid ammunition artillery from the nineteenth century.

* High Explosive Plastic general purpose ammunition, US Army terminology, also called high explosive squash head ( HESH )

This course was named the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Course, governing training in all basic types of ammunition and projectiles.

* HEI, High Explosive Incendiary ammunition

In the 2012 movie Dredd, a revised version of the Lawgiver II demonstrated seven types of ammunition, which again were voice activated: RAPID ( Rapid fire FMJ ( Full Metal Jacket ), AP ( Armour Piercing ), INC ( Incendiary ), HI-EX ( High Explosive ) Hotshot, and Stun.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics ( NYSE: GD ), has been awarded a contract for the production and delivery of 30mm M789 High Explosive Dual Purpose ( HEDP ) ammunition cartridges by the U. S. Army Contracting Command.

The 25 pounder's main ammunition was the High Explosive ( HE ) streamlined shell with a 5 / 10 CRH ogive and boat tail.

Soltam manufactures a wide range of mortar ammunition, ranging in caliber and in use ( High Explosive HE, Smoke and training ).

The Support Activity has expanded its mission and Department of Defense support role with over 40 tenant commands, and today is a training center, with the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command ( NNPTC ), Nuclear Power Training Unit, Propulsion Facility, and Border Patrol satellite academy ; Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston ; Mobile Mine Assembly Unit ; Explosive Ordnance Detachments ; Marine Corps Reserve Center ; an engineering complex, with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center ( SPAWAR, this is the largest employer in the Charleston area ) and is close to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast ; 269 above-ground ammunition magazines, maintenance and storage of military ordnance including mines, and serves as an Army logistics hub, the busiest continental United States surface port in the defense transportation system.

* High Explosive Fragmentation, a type of ammunition or ordnance

Types of ammunition included HEAT, High Explosive Plastic-Tracer ( HEP-T ), canister, High Explosive Anti Personnel, and the M368 dummy round which could not be fired and was used for crew drill.

Standard LAV fitted with a turret with 360 ° traverse, armed with an M242 25 mm chain gun with 420 rounds of 25 mm ammunition, both M791 APDS-T ( Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot-Tracer ) and M792 HEI-T ( High Explosive Incendiary-Tracer ), of which half is ready for use.

Two types of impact fuze were available for the Type 97 75 mm High Explosive round, one with a delay of 0. 05 seconds, the second with a delay of 1 second.

Explosive breeders on the other hand are found where temporary pools appear in dry regions after rainfall.

Explosive compounds are also often " alloyed ": HMX or RDX powders may be mixed ( typically by melt-casting ) with TNT to form Octol or Cyclotol.

In the United States, these acts are governed by Title 40 of the United States Code, " Importation, Manufacture, Distribution and Storage of Explosive Materials " ( 18 U. S. C.

Improvised Explosive Devices, ( IEDs ), mines and enemy fire are examples of such persistent and variable threats.

A variety of Armor-Piercing Incendiary ( API ), High Explosive Incendiary ( HEI ), and training rounds are available.

Explosive nucleosynthesis occurs too rapidly for radioactive decay to decrease the number of neutrons, so that many abundant isotopes having equal even numbers of protons and neutrons are synthesized by the silicon quasiequilibrium set up in the explosive burning of oxygen and silicon, fusing nuclei that themselves have equal numbers of protons and neutrons to produce nuclides which consist of whole numbers of helium nuclei, up to 15 ( representing < sup > 60 </ sup > Ni ).

Units typically assigned to TF 68 are Explosive Ordnance Disposal units, Naval Construction units and Marines which make up the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Teams ( FAST ).

Explosive yields can be affected by the introduction of mechanical loads or the application of temperature ; such damages are called insults.

Cluster bomb strikes are cleared by HALO's Battle Area Clearance ( BAC ) teams whilst other items of UXO are cleared by HALO's Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) teams.

Explosive belts are usually packed with ball bearings, nails, screws, bolts, and other objects that serve as shrapnel to maximize the number of casualties in the explosion.

" Explosive belts " ( or vests ) are an on-foot version of such attacks.

Improvised Explosive Device ( IEDs ), Vehicle-Borne IEDS ( VBIEDS ) and the like are direct fire weapons.

The following Fort Gillem units are scheduled to relocate: Headquarters, First Army, to Rock Island Arsenal, Ill .; 2nd Recruiting Brigade to Redstone Arsenal, Ala .; the 52nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group to Fort Campbell, Ky .; the 81st Regional Readiness Command Equipment Concentration Site to Fort Benning, Ga .; and the U. S. Army Central Headquarters support office to Shaw Air Force Base, S. C.

* EOD experts: the Explosive Ordnance Disposal are experts in detonating explosives without damage and bomb disposal.

; Explosive ordnance disposal: In jurisdictions where the police are responsible for, or participate in, explosive ordnance disposal squads ( bomb squads ), dedicated vehicles transport the squads ' crews and equipment.

Armourers can also volunteer to specialize in Explosive Ordnance Disposal and are often employed on the front line of conflicts clearing airfields from any unexploded ordnance ( UXO ).

Another theory that has been suggested is that the armor additions are not ERA ( Explosive Reactive Armour ), but composite layers in block form.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder ( abbreviated IED ) is a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme expressions of anger, often to the point of violence, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand.

Explosive, hot volatile rich magma or volcanic eruptions are referred to generally as diatremes.

Napalm and High Explosive Incendiary ( HEI ) are prohibited.

These are the Microdet Electric Detonator, the Explosive Lead, the Explosive Booster, and the Delay Primer Assembly ( Figure 3 ) functioning as follows: