Sage-Tips

What is meant by IEDs?

improvised explosive device (IED), a homemade bomb, constructed from military or nonmilitary components, that is frequently employed by guerrillas, insurgents, and other nonstate actors as a crude but effective weapon against a conventional military force.

What are Class B explosives?

“Class B explosives.” Possessing flammable hazard, such as propellant explosives (including some smokeless propellants), photographic flash powders, and some special fireworks.

What are the types of explosions?

There are three main types of explosions: chemical, mechanical and nuclear. Each type of explosion can be equally devastating and serious, causing unprecedented harm to the surrounding people, atmosphere and infrastructure. Therefore, understanding different types of explosions and how they occur is important.

What is an IED in SCADA?

An acronym for Intelligent Electronic Device. An IED, as it relates to the protection and power system automation industry, is a device that performs electrical protection functions, advanced local control intelligence, has the ability to monitor processes and can communicate directly to a SCADA system.

What are the three types of IEDs?

IEDs may incorporate military or commercially sourced explosives, and often combine both types, or they may otherwise be made with homemade explosives (HME). An IED has five components: a switch (activator), an initiator (fuse), container (body), charge (explosive), and a power source (battery).

Which component is common to IEDs?

Although IEDs can vary widely in shape and size, there are five components common to all IEDs which consist of the switch, the initiator, the main charge, the power source and the container. Switch. A device for making, breaking, or changing a connection in an IED.

How to make an IED?

A power supply,often provided by car batteries or alkaline flashlight batteries

A trigger,switch or some other direct or indirect means of setting the device off,such as a radio signal,trip wire,timer or firing button that someone presses.

A detonator,a small explosive charge that sets off the main charge.

What are the parts of an IED?

­In contrast, IEDs are homemade with five basic parts: A power supply, often provided by car batteries or alkaline flashlight batteries A trigger, switch or some other direct or indirect means of setting the device off, such as a radio signal, trip wire, timer or firing button that someone presses.