A new method of Deactivation of Bombs by the Low-Order Blasting Technique

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang P. W. Spyra; Martin Volk

• Book ID: 105355736
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 405 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-3115
• DOI: 10.1002/prep.19910160609

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Presently Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel continue to find ammunition in former battle areas. Old unexploded bombs are especially dangerous. EOD technicians have quite a number of methods and techniques available to deactivate these bombs and it is only practicability that determines the method or technique to be used. Compared with handling known identifiable ammunition, the unidentified and often heterogeneous recovered ammunition is especially risky for EOD personnel. In particular, war material from the last year of World war II, shows considerable deviations. Safety provisions give priority to remote deactivation methods. A modified low‐order blasting technique which forms part of the remote deactivation methods will be presented in this paper. This presumes that the main charge is discovered by boring, examined and then initiated with a defined blasting charge to such an extent that only the bomb casing is opened. In this case no high‐order (full) detonation of the main charge could be observed.