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• n  a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

• charge
• burster
• bursting charge

News & Articles

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• Afghans rush to learn risky art of defusing bombs
  CAMP BLACK HORSE, Afghanistan (AP) — In a desolate field outside Kabul, an Afghan soldier hunches over a knee-high robot equipped with cameras, multidirectional pincers and tank-treads built for rough terrain. Carefully, he attaches four bottles of water and a tiny explosive charge to the robot. He uses a remote control to guide it 50 meters (yards) away to his target: a simulated backpack bomb.
  June 24, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News