Posted on 12/19/2005 1:29:57 PM PST by CedarDave
Officials Fret Over Disappearance Of Explosives 150 Pounds Of Explosives Missing From Sandia-Affiliated Company
POSTED: 2:10 pm MST December 19, 2005 UPDATED: 2:17 pm MST December 19, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Officials discovered hundreds of pounds of explosives stolen in Albuquerque on Sunday.
One hundred fifty pounds of c4, 250 pound deta sheet, and 2,000 blasting caps were taken from a Sandia Labs employee's company.
Officials are very concerned about these thefts.
The items were stolen from a facility in Southwest Albuquerque.
Burglars apparently cut through steel bars to get at the goods.
C4 is a plastic explosive.
A deta sheet is another explosive that looks like a rubbery sheet of orange or green paper.
What makes deta sheets especially dangerous is that they can be hidden in books or letters. It cannot be spotted by a metal detector but are used by engineers for detonation.
Blasting caps are devices used to set off explosives.
If you know anything about the disappearance, please call police.
Copyright 2005 by TheNewMexicoChannel.com.
Will do. Thanks.
In that case call Governor Bill Richardson, Dem.
Also, the human nose can be trained to smell nitrates, chlorates, and perchlorates just like dogs. It's the most unused sense we have. Dogs use it naturally. We have to pay attention to it.
In that case call Governor Bill Richardson, Dem.
He doesn't know anything. He is too busy poking people and wiping spit on their glasses.
When's the last time you remember some bureaucrat getting his butt kicked for screwing up?
President Andrew Johnson, 1867 ?
If The U.S. is seriously under attack again, I am a volunteer if needed by our military. I swore an oath when I joined the AF. It stands.
"Do they still use mercury fulminate in the detonators?"
I don't really know. It's been years since I worked with explosives and I suppose those were the ones I used. There are others you can use with improvised explosives but they are VERY unstable, like blow your fingers off unstable.
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I am not going to give recipies for explosives on a public forum like this. I will just suggest an idiot at 15 with an interest in chemistry can create hydrazine(rocket fuel) in a toilet bowl. You test it by smoking a cigarette on top of it. Ammonia is one ingredient. Guess the other.
The F-16 uses a hydrazine fueled Emergency Power Unit (read that as a rocket fueled turbine) to give power when all other systems fail....the exhaust is almost pure ammonia.....interesting post, thanks.
A security type wouldn't need to burn through the locking bar, he'd have the keys. I don't that most of them are bright enough to do it as a bit of disinformation.
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I know there is a small EPU on F-16s because I worked on components for them. Has anyone needed it?
No security type wouldn't have the keys...won't go into why or why not....Stay safe !
Oh yea....I'll look around and see if I can find the F-16 HUD video of one "dead stick" landing, I think it was coming into Chicago......nothing but EPU to run flight controls and essential communications....the pilots voice gets higher and higher...."I can't see THE RUNWAY"....classic. Talk about grace under pressure.
Geez..Louise! I still couldn't figure out what it was all about other than another government funded 'feel good' program. Perhaps the 'necklace of labs' along the Mexican border can serve as a friggin fence...lol. Seriously though, it sounds dangerous. Look at how NM has already let nuclear secrets get in the hands of China for cryin out loud! Add to that a bunch of folks from MEXICO designing our own security for our border..it is insanity!
Just in time for Christmas.
Big mistake.
I once called the Albuquerque Police to report the theft of 3 firearms and several hundred rounds of ammunition from my vehicle.
I was told to drop by a substation and file a report sometime in the next few days, 'cause they don't investigate property crimes.
Apparently there's no revenue in that. The fastest way to get the attention of APD is to drive around not wearing your seatbelt.
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