Posted on 01/15/2010 11:45:36 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
Link: Kodiak Konfidential A supposedly harmless military explosive casing that was on display for years outside a now-defunct Kodiak bar turned out to have been live, KK reports. Fort Richardson's ordnance disposal team this week traveled to Kodiak to detonate the shell after the owner of the Kodiak Military History Museum determined it was still live. The explosion could be heard in the city. "I guess the upside of the whole story," writes the KK blogger, "is that all these years no drunk drove his truck into the bomb at high speed, OR tossed a seal bomb underneath it on the Fourth of July. That would have made one helluva divot in Mill Bay Road." The shell had spent the past few years in a junkyard in a relatively busy Kodiak neighborhood.
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That will ruin your whole day...
Seal bomb, not sealed bomb. Basically a big firecracker. Commercial fishermen use them to scare off sea lions and seals.
LOL! Fusing is the last stage when loading weapons on aircraft, frankly running a car into it probably would not have detonated, although it depends on the state of the explosives used. When I was doing weapons loadouts, we used tritonal as the filler, it was no big deal to see them dropped, other than REALLY POing the load officer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzsElu-GaGA&feature=related
I really need to get some seal bombs for my next 4th of July celebration.
That’s what I was wondering about.
Ping
Something new to play with?
Only if they want to go to jail.
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