A camouflet, in military science, is an artificial cavern created by an explosion. If the explosion reaches the surface then it is called a crater. The...

current use in articles about previous military periods. Some of them like camouflet have been adapted to describe modern versions of old techniques. Access...

explodes deep underground, causing massive caverns or craters known as camouflets, as well as intense shockwaves. In this way, the seismic bomb can affect...

Messines, found La Petite Douve Farm mine. On 27 August, the Germans set a camouflet, which killed four men and wrecked the gallery for 120 m (400 ft); the...

directly, but to impact beside it, penetrate under it, and create a 'camouflet', or large buried cavern, at the same time as delivering a shock wave...

the enemy's tunnel in which they would detonate explosives to create a camouflet to destroy the enemy's tunnel. Night raids were also conducted with the...

targets (such as submarine pens) it could be used indirectly to create a camouflet (cavern) that undermined structures such as bridges, viaducts and bunkers...

to land in soft ground, penetrate deeply and then explode, creating a camouflet, causing the structure above to subside. Grand Slams and Tallboys were...

1945), but rather to penetrate under the target and explode leaving a camouflet (cavern) which would undermine foundations of structures above, causing...

Parisian slang term meaning to disguise, and may have been influenced by camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face. The English zoologist...

weapons testing Explosion crater Chagan (nuclear test) Sedan (nuclear test) Camouflet Glory hole (mining), specifically the subsidence crater produced by underground...

Retrieved 8 August 2009. "Brigade - "Camouflet" Music Video". Rocksound. Retrieved 13 November 2010. "Brigade - "Camouflet" Music Video Director". Rocksound...

speed, and would, upon impact, penetrate and explode deep underground ("camouflet"), causing massive caverns or craters, and affecting targets too large...

found the mine at La Petite Douve Farm and wrecked the chamber with a camouflet. The British diverted the attention of German miners from their deepest...

1916, British tunnellers fired 101 mines or camouflets, while German tunnellers fired 126 mines or camouflets. This amounts to a total of 227 mine explosions...

detonate, transferring all of its energy into the structure, or creating a camouflet (cavern or crater) into which the target would fall. This 'earthquake'...

sixteen sappers were killed on 4 February, when the Germans detonated a camouflet near the British three-level mine system, starting from Inch Street, La...

Front, British tunnellers fired 101 mines or camouflets, while German tunnellers fired 126 mines or camouflets. This amounts to a total of 227 mine explosions...

slow match. Saucissons were used to fire fougasses, petards, mines and camouflets. Very long fascines were also called saucissons. Later, in early 20th...

Section's barracks and Mulley is nearly asphyxiated when he falls into its camouflet. Brian's difficult recovery strains his relationship with Susan near to...

the energy of detonation is transferred into the structure or creates a camouflet (cavern or crater) into which the target would fall. The Royal Air Force...

Retrieved 28 December 2021. Fiammetti, Alexandre (26 December 2021). "Nouveau camouflet pour le Standard de Liège qui ne parvient pas à clôturer l'année sur une...

impact penetrates and explodes deep underground, causing massive caverns (camouflets) or craters as well as much more severe shockwaves. In this way, they...

Australian War Memorial. OCLC 220900299. Finlayson, Damien (2010). Crumps and Camouflets: Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front. New Port, New South...

primary belt to give depth in front or behind or to protect the flanks. Camouflet Defense, U. S. Department of (27 July 2009). Dictionary of Military Terms...

droits de l'homme (in French). 21 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023. "Camouflet définitif pour Darmanin, la dissolution des Soulèvements de la Terre annulée"...

000 pounds (32,000 kg), despite water-logging and the demolition by a camouflet of 200 feet (61 m) of a German gallery above the British diggings, which...

"L'élection du Portugais Antonio Vitorino à la tête de l'OIM est un camouflet pour Trump - Le Temps" (in French). 2018-06-29. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved...

Philippe; More, Sandrine (3 April 2017). "Brexit: l'Espagne inflige deux camouflets à Londres" [Brexit: Spain hits London with double whammy]. Le Monde (in...

sappers were heard digging near a gallery and a 300-kilogram (660 lb) camouflet was quickly placed in the gallery and blown, collapsing the French digging...