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    An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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    explosive devices include: Explosive weapon Anti-personnel mine Artillery shells Bomb Grenade Improvised explosive device Land mine Nuclear explosive...
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    interrelated functions in the military fields of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and improvised explosive device disposal (IEDD), and the public safety roles...
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    truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile...
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    agency (Mossad) had secretly manufactured the devices, integrated the explosive PETN into the devices, and sold them to Hezbollah through a shell company...
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    An explosive belt (also called suicide belt or a suicide vest) is an improvised explosive device, a belt or a vest packed with explosives and armed with...
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    — Rick Atkinson, The Washington Post EFPs have been used in improvised explosive devices against armoured cars, for example in the 1989 assassination...
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  • tried to assassinate a Saudi prince, Muhammad bin Nayef, with an improvised explosive device that had been inserted into his rectum and anal canal. On 27...
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    Pipe bomb (category Improvised explosive devices)
    A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device (IED) that uses a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material. The containment provided...
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    high explosive munitions including other types of ordnance such as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons along with improvised explosive devices (IED)...
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  • mechanical device Medical device, a device intended for medical use Peripheral device, hardware that is external but accessible to a computer Improvised explosive...
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    the Army. Like many other U.S. military manuals dealing with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unconventional warfare, it was declassified and released...
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    of his death he was commanding an Improvised Explosive Device Disposal team, assigned to the Joint Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group, who were defusing...
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    Boston Marathon bombing (category Improvised explosive device bombings in 2013)
    pressure cooker lid was found on a nearby rooftop. Both of the improvised explosive devices were pressure cooker bombs manufactured by the bombers. Authorities...
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    United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians render safe all types of ordnance, including improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear...
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  • Improvised nuclear devices or (INDs) are theoretical illicit nuclear weapons bought, stolen, or otherwise originating from a nuclear state, or a weapon...
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    dropped by aircraft with a delay to increase damage/disruption) Improvised explosive device ("home-made" bombs with a delay to allow the person placing the...
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  • killed four people and injured 15, some seriously, using three improvised explosive devices and 24 mail bombs, which he sent in five waves between 1993 and...
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    and sustained burns to thirty percent of his body due to an improvised explosive device injury in 2008. Brown began several business ventures and became...
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    sixteen confirmed bombs sent were improvised explosive devices, though none had a trigger mechanism. None of the devices exploded outside a controlled setting...
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    insurgents, is the RPG. Two examples of an improvised weapon used by insurgents would be the improvised explosive devices used in Iraq and the Molotov cocktails...
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    Assassination of Lord Mountbatten (category Improvised explosive device bombings in 1979)
    Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish...
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    manufacture into explosive ordnance and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Certain types of explosive ordnance and many improvised explosive devices are sometimes...
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    and Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Defeat Task Force and subsequently as the deputy director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization...
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    9 hand grenades, also known as the "jam tins", are a type of improvised explosive device used by the British and Commonwealth forces, notably the Australian...
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    to be used to activate a harmful device, such as a bomb or improvised explosive device. The switch that arms the device is only kept in its "off" position...
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  • On 29 October 2023, a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts took place during a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, a suburb...
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  • Counter Improvised Explosive Device and EOD Working Groups. Explosive Ordnance Disposal has existed in various forms since the invention of explosives and...
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    officially as an improvised rocket-assisted mortar, improvised rocket-assisted munition, or IRAM) is a rocket-fired improvised explosive device made from a...
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    Bomb (section Low explosive)
    instance, in recent asymmetric conflicts, homemade bombs called "improvised explosive devices" (IEDs) have been employed by irregular forces to great effectiveness...
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