[mvpel]

A buddy of mine at work went through the explosives tech specialty in the German Army, and described the one time their team detonated a full 10 kilograms of C-4.

They were faced with an enormous tangled berm of trees and logs, perhaps 30 feet high, 30 feet across, and 100 feet long. They shaped the C-4 into a long snake, and with a long rod, pushed it under the width of the berm. They set the detcord, and ran back to their bunker and waited for the boom.

He said, "think of the world ending, and that's about what it was like." An incredible noise, shaking, dust and debris drifting down from the ceiling, etc.

He had expected a two-lane wide breach in the berm, and a good-size crater, but when he emerged from the bunker, he had to blink a few times to take in the scene. The entire berm was gone, and splinters of what once were logs were still drifting down from the sky. An entire log was imbedded in the ground hundreds of feet away from the site. The oblong crater where the detonation had taken place looked like it had been swept and dusted out by little old ladies with brooms.

What's ironic is that C-4 is a waste product from dye manufacturing.

[ExSES]

"They were faced with an enormous tangled berm of trees and logs, perhaps 30 feet high, 30 feet across, and 100 feet long. They shaped the C-4 into a long snake, and with a long rod, pushed it under the width of the berm"

The "Classic" Bangalor!

[45Auto]

Its my understanding that C 4 is also known as plasticized RDX, or cyclonite, or hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine. The old preparation involved nitration of hexamethylenetetramine, which in turn is made from ammonia and formaldehyde (cheap). Oddly enough, it has also been used as a rat poison, quite appropriate for bin Dipstick and his minions.