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| 100kg of explosives recovered in Achkhoi-Martan |
| 2004-01-27 |
| One hundred kilograms of hexogen were discovered in the Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya. "The cache was found on the shore of the Shalazha river on the outskirts of the Shaami-Yurt area of Achkhoi-Martan District during a special operation," a spokesman for the regional operational counter-terrorist HQ for the North Caucasus reported. According to him, more than 100 kg of hexogen, five homemade explosive devices, a grenade launcher with 19 rounds, a machine gun, 2 Kalashnikov submachine guns, a mine, 8 grenades, 800 kg of TNT, and 843 cartridges of various calibre were confiscated from the cache. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Thanks Steve... I think. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-27 3:42:39 PM |
| #4 thx Steve - I googled for it but got a bunch of bad references to russian magazines |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-1-27 3:24:51 PM |
| #3 Hexogen = Russian RDX: High-explosive material called RDX (Hexogen - made by the action of nitric acid on hexamethylene-tetramine, a product of formaldehyde and ammonia, a.k.a. cyclonite or cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) used in rocket propellants, bombs, detonators and fuses. Hexogen can be mixed with TNT to create a Composition B explosive more powerful than TNT. Composition B is commonly used in artillery shells. Hexogen is also used to create Composition A (rockets, land mines), C (demolition, shaped-charge), HBX (missile and torpedo warheads), H-6 (bursting charge for general purpose bombs), and Cyclotol (shaped-charge, fragmentation bombs and grenades) explosives. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-1-27 1:47:53 PM |
| #2 hexogen? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-27 1:27:50 PM |
| #1 That could just be left over from the Y2K scare. You know - be prepared and all that. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-27 11:30:34 AM |