The ZEUS-HLONS ( HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System ), commonly known as ZEUS, was developed for surface land mines and unexploded ordnance ( UXO ) neutralization by the U. S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division ( NAVEODTECHDIV ).

Explosive eruptions resulted in damaged land, and the VEI was also recorded as a 2.

Divided into Mobile Explosive Investigative Units ( MEIU ) they were instrumental in the clearance of explosive hazards both on land and at sea.

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

Since the start of 2007, HALO has been conducting a re-assessment to identify the remaining mines problem and the assets required to clear the remaining mine and Explosive Remnants of War ( ERW ) problem in a reasonable time frame.

This has resulted in the use of locally manufactured mines and Improvised Explosive Devices ( IEDs ), collectively described as " mines ".

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.

Explosive bombs were used in 1221 by a Jin Dynasty army against a Song Dynasty city.

1949 marked the official end of an era, as Army and Navy Bomb Disposal squads were reclassified into Explosive Ordnance Disposal units.

In 1953, the research and development tasks were assumed by OIL, which was renamed the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center ( NAVEODTECHCEN ).

Ten High Explosive bombs were dropped.

Royal Ordnance factories were privatised on 2 January 1985 and became part of the Explosive Division of Royal Ordnance Plc, later RO Defence.

However, the Environmental Protection Agency's ( EPA ) " Newtown Creek / Greenpoint Oil Spill Study Brooklyn, New York " states that vapor concentrations in " some commercial establishments " were found " above the Upper Explosive Limit " ( page 7 ).

Explosive shells or carcasses were employed rather than solid shot.

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.

Prior to 1 June 2006, enlisted members of United States Navy that qualified as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Warfare Specialist were authorized to wear the warfare qualification as well as have ( EOD ) listed after their rating designator.

Explosive shells had long been in use in ground warfare ( in howitzers and mortars ), but they were only fired at high angles and with relatively low velocities.

These consisted of small groups of suspected guerrillas firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, in addition to using basic forms of IEDs ( Improvised Explosive Device ) on U. S. patrols and convoys in attacks that were often poorly planned and demonstrated poor marksmanship and training.

The extent, speed and direction of the avalanche and pyroclastic flows that overwhelmed Johnston, Martin, and others were later described in detail in a paper titled ' Chronology and Character of the 18 May 1980 Explosive Eruptions of Mount St. Helens ', published in 1984 in a collection published by the National Research Council's Geophysics Study Committee.

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.

Their report Evaluasi Kegiatan G. Rinjani of 4 May also stated that on 1 May 2010 at 10: 00 four events of Explosive Earthquake were recorded with a maximum amplitude of 6 – 53 mm and 110 seconds long earthquake, earthquake tremor events with a maximum amplitude of 1 mm and 55 second long duration, 15 Local Tectonic earthquake events and two events of tectonic earthquake.

Fully armoured self-propelled guns were introduced to provide protection against conventional HE ( High Explosive ) fire.

Explosive Material Disposal Units, Fingerprints and Palm Prints Branches and Crime Scene Examination Units were also established.

Of those fatalities, seven were the result of hostile action such as small arms fire and Improvised Explosive Devices.

These guns offered much improved performance against tanks but because they fired High Explosive rounds that were inferior to those of the 75mm guns, the larger calibre guns never completely replaced the older models.

Explosive arrows were also seen in the film Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Among other military weapons, he was the inventor of the squash-head shell ( High Explosive Squash Head shell ) and the British developer of the recoilless rifle which were known as Burney guns.

Explosive ROF's specialised in producing either high-explosives, such as TNT ( trinitrotoluene ) or RDX ; or propellants, such as cordite, but there were minor exceptions to this demarcation.

The products from these Explosive ROFs were shipped to Filling Factories for filling into munitions.

The Filling Factory's raw materials, such as TNT, RDX, or propellants, such as cordite, were manufactured in National Explosives Factories ( World War I ) or Explosive ROFs ( World War II ) and transported, by railway trains, to the Filling Factories for filling into munitions, produced at other plants.

Explosive shock waves can cause situations such as body displacement ( i. e., people being thrown through the air ), dismemberment, internal bleeding and ruptured eardrums.

Explosive storage became more important following the Hong Kong 1967 riots and the Hong Kong Mines Division elected to have all commercial explosives stored on Stonecutter's prior to being issued to the various blasting sites in the colony.

* Explosive: An explosive charge is used to disintegrate the target, and damage surrounding areas with a blast wave.

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.

The US forces normally used the explosive Explosive D, otherwise known as ammonium picrate, for this purpose.

The facility will house a $ 2. 5-million Explosive Detection System, used for the automatic detection of explosives within checked luggage.

The term Improvised Explosive Device comes from the British Army in the 1970s, after the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) used bombs made from agricultural fertilizer and semtex smuggled from Libya to make highly effective boobytrap devices or remote-controlled bombs.

Explosive detection machines used include X-ray machines and explosives trace-detection portal machines ( a. k. a. " puffer machines ").

Explosive detection machines can also be used for both carry on and checked baggage.

This term is used to refer to the Navy SEALs, operatives of the CIA's Special Activities Division, elements of Marine Recon, Army Ranger RRD members, Army Special Forces divers, Air Force Pararescue, and the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) units.

The album also featured the band's first collaboration with composer Max Richter, which included the big beat track " We Have Explosive ", released in 1997 ; it was used on the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation soundtrack, and ( before the single release ) in 1996 on the video game WipE ' out " 2097, along with the track " Landmass ", which they wrote especially for " 2097 " and WipE ' out ".

Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal Teams, Scout Snipers and sniper spotters also used DMRs when the mission requires rapid, accurate fire at long range.

Land Rover police car used as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Hong Kong

The Mk 18 is also used by the Coast Guard's Tactical Law Enforcement Teams, Maritime Safety and Security Teams, and Maritime Security Response Team and the United States Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) Operators.

We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE ( High Explosive ) Rounds.

Jouni Yrjölä and Jussi Tella, in their book An Explosive Chess Opening Repertoire for Black, state that the opening " was played in 1938 by Rudolf Spielmann and used in the 1960s by Stein and Kavalek among others ...

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.

Bond, an Australian / British string quartet, used some of Huljić ’ s songs as the base of their hit songs " Explosive ", " Victory ", " Fuego ".

Explosive manufacture ceased in 1920, although parts of the site were used as an explosives store until the 1960s.