Re: BOMB PLANS

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Mark M. wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> > but the standards must be pretty low.  The reason hand grenades
> > look like pineapples is because it's very difficult to get metal
> > to fragment unless it is scored or otherwise predisposed to come
> > apart in little pieces.  What I've been told is that a pipe bomb
> > just peals open at it's weakest place and otherwise stays in one
> > piece.  Don't know, but that's what I've heard.  Makes sense to
> > me.
> You're right.  A pipe bomb isn't even technically a "bomb".  It just has
> various combustible chemicals within a sealed container.  The explosive force
> is just due to the high pressure released.  Nails and screws can be used as
> shrapnel, but if the container was scored, the explosive force would be
> weakened.  Newer hand grenades have scored wire wrapped around the core so
> when it explodes, the container is shattered and the wire fragments fly out
> at very high speeds.  I would guess that these are more powerful than the
> "pineapple" grenades.

     I don't know about "more powerful", but they are more effective, and 
IIRC a little smaller & lighter. 


Petro, Christopher C.
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