plural of controlled explosion

plural of explosive decompression

plural of explosive belt

A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.

Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene, used in mining.

plural of Favier explosive

(simile, informal) riotously colorful

A type of shaped charge with a shallow depression instead of a deep cone on the attacking face, allowing the metal plate to be explosively formed into a high velocity projectile that can penetrate armour at stand-off distances, greater than that of the hypervelocity plasma from the deeply coned form of shaped charge munitions.

plural of improvised explosive device

plural of explosively formed penetrator