Collective Awareness to Unexploded Ordnance: We aim to bring together the EOD community in order to collate information and awareness on explosive hazards.
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The 2S4 Tulip is the world's largest operational mortar, designed to obliterate bunkers and fortified positions with massive 240mm shells, making it one of Russia's most devastating battlefield weapons.
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SARAC-99 is a Serbian 20 mm anti-materiel rifle built for extreme-range firepower, designed to engage vehicles, fortifications, and critical equipment with powerful Hispano ammunition.
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The U.S. State Department has approved a potential defense sale to Brazil that includes FIM-92K Stinger missiles and accompanying equipment.
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AC-130J Ghostrider's New Griffin missile
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An Unexploded warhead of a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile (likley from the latest US attack to Iran) near the Iranian city of Varamin.
The scene seems to be staged, but still interesting.
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Jun 15
中国解放军qn202型迷你导弹测试画面曝光！这是敌方载具真正的噩梦…..就这么个小玩意儿，打的准，速度快，光纤抗干扰能力强，而且重量轻、还便宜！一个人可以带10发，一个步兵班就是100发！
注意：视频为测试画面，并未安装战斗部。
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Jun 13
Russian developers have presented Impuls-M unmanned ground vehicles equipped with AGS-30 automatic grenade launchers and Type 75 multiple rocket launch systems. Its combat modules reportedly include ballistic calculators for 30 mm AGS-30 grenades and 107 mm Type 75 rockets.
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Jun 13
The TOS-1A is one of the most unique rocket artillery systems in service today. Mounted on a tank chassis and armed with thermobaric rockets, it was designed to engage fortified positions, trenches, and defensive strongholds with overwhelming blast effects.
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Jun 13
The Ukrainian mine-clearing line-charge “Tropa” system is mounted on a “Sirko-S1” UGV.
Deployed by a rocket, the remotely operated and command-detonated system clears a 150-meter-long by 60-cm-wide path through an anti-personnel minefield.
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MPLC backpack tactical line charges for clearing mines are used by Ukraine.
Donated by the Netherlands, explosive line is deployed by a rocket and command detonated by the engineer with a shock tube.
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Jun 12
Sinaloa, Mexico
Federal forces seized a pickup truck filled with explosives, ammunition, and tactical equipment at a checkpoint in the locality of El Rosario.
Via Zulu
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Jun 12
Once the target is locked and aimed at, Chinese heat‑seeking missiles become like an arrow unleashed — striking with pinpoint accuracy and leaving no room for error.
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DRC 🇨🇩: Video showing a soviet made 30 mm AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher from the M23 captured by Wazalendo militiamen.
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Jun 12
Ukraine has already adopted one method of suppressing Russian air defense forces by equipping mid-range FP-2 strike UAVs with Soviet-era S-5 unguided air-to-ground rockets.
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“Madyar” confirms that the purpose of the unguided rockets now carried by Ukrainian FP-1/2 UAVs is to suppress ground fire.
“It's the turn of the mobile groups. The task is to eliminate these machine gunners and MANPADS.
From now on, UAVs will be equipped with [rockets] to work on different types of targets, as well as on you.”
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Jun 11
3OF70 spotted with TA-20 (TNT/Aluminium 80/20) replacing A-IX-2. Same replacement was seen on many other russian shell for cost cutting measures.
This translate to a clear downgrade in performances
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Jun 11
The concave copper liner of the Russian shaped-charge KOFZBCh-3 (КОФЗБЧ-3) drone munition that forms an EFP (explosively formed penetrator) is displayed here.
Additionally, the warhead's metal casing is seen to be internally segmented to facilitate fragmentation.
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A new type of Russian kamikaze UAV also has a new warhead.
The KOFZBCh-3 (КОФЗБЧ-3) is a 2.9kg shaped-charge fragmentation incendiary munition.
The shallow concave plate would produce an EFP (Explosively Formed Projectile).
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A Russian military fires an improvised projectile made from a mortar round using an RPG launcher.
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❗️🇨🇳Chinese FN-6 MANPADS in service with the 🇺🇦123rd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade
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