The “mother of all bombs” that the United States Air Force dropped on eastern Afghanistan on Thursday weighed 21,600 pounds. The vast bulk of the bomb’s weight came from the sheer amount of explosive ...
Prosecutors charged Joseph Godlewski with a felony count of possession of an improvised explosive device, saying he had the ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Every time a gun fires, lead leaches into the air. A scientific advancement could provide a comparable replacement for lead-based explosive materials found in ammunition, ...
The job of ordnance disposal technicians is rapidly changing. After decades of handling prevasive ground-level threats of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan and Iraq, disposal techs are ...
The advent of unmanned combat vehicles is generating a need for smaller weapon systems to fit their reduced dimensions. As a result, more powerful explosives are being sought to get the most ...