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4 posted on 10/28/2004 6:44:11 AM PDT by Petronski (A Monday morning quarterback has never led any team to victory.)
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Are those Cast Boosters?

http://www.explomo.com/commer.htm

UEE Cast Boosters are high energy explosives, designed to initiate blasting agents. They can be initiated by detonating cord and/or no 8 detonators producing a high velocity and energy detonation. UEE Cast Boosters are cylindrical and dimensioned in accordance to their weight. These boosters are longitudinal perforated to facilitate their connection with detonating cord or detonators.

17 posted on 10/28/2004 6:56:45 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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Cast Boosters


20 posted on 10/28/2004 7:01:11 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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In its pure synthesised state it is a white crystalline solid. As an explosive it is usually used in mixtures with other explosives and plasticizers or desensitizers. It is stable in storage and is considered the most powerful and brisant of the military high explosives.

RDX forms the base for a number of common military explosives: Composition A (wax-coated, granular explosive consisting of RDX and plasticizing wax), composition A5 (mixed with 1.5% stearic acid), composition B (castable mixtures of RDX and TNT), composition C (a plastic demolition explosive consisting of RDX, other explosives, and plasticizers), composition D, HBX (castable mixtures of RDX, TNT, powdered aluminium, and D-2 wax with calcium chloride), H-6, Cyclotol and C-4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX

31 posted on 10/28/2004 7:11:46 AM PDT by antaresequity
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oh, Now the reporters ask the Army to identify it? They didn't bother to notify the Army BEFORE? When everyone was concerned about WMD?
34 posted on 10/28/2004 7:14:44 AM PDT by cookcounty (WWW-Will John Kerry seek a 4th Purple Heart for fingers burnt in the Battle of Al-Qa Qaa?)
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