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This is a four ton towed mortar that generally fired a 130kg (286 pound) high-explosive shell that contained 34 kg (75 pounds) of explosives. In the 1970s the Russian army replaced the towed version ...

By making a bomb with the powerful explosive RDX, Shamsud-Din Jabbar was mimicking the tactics of terrorist groups operating ...

The new SPM version carries 36 rounds of ammunition, including short-range (1,200 meters) anti-tank shells and longer range (13.5 kilometers) high-explosive shells. There is also a 12.7mm machine-gun ...

Though a smoke-producing shell is not a traditional high explosive round intended to impact on enemy positions, it would still be a highly dangerous explosive if live. Other pictures shows several ...

A ‘mortar’ is a cannon that fires almost straight up into the sky, which means that its high-explosive shell comes back almost straight down. Thus, if your opposition is hunkered down in a ...

But a compound like RDX is vastly more difficult to set off. It’s considered a high explosive material, meaning it won’t detonate without a primary explosion occurring near it — initiated by ...