Is C4 a high or low explosive?
Booster - A cap-sensitive high explosive used to initiate other less sensitive high explosives. Brisance - The shattering power associated with high explosives. C4 - A white, pliable military plastic explosive containing primarily Cyclonite (RDX).
How powerful is C4 compared to TNT?
C4 is 18% more powerful than TNT. Ammonium nitrate in its pure form is a fairly weak explosive.
What gives C4 its explosive power?
The explosive in C4 is RDX (cyclonite or cyclotrimethylene trinitramine), which makes up around 91% of C4 by mass. The plasticizer is diethylhexyl (5.3%) or dioctyl sebacate and the binder is usually polyisobutylene (2.1%). Another plasticizer used is dioctyl adipate (DOA).
Is C5 a real explosive?
C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder, plasticizer to make it malleable, and usually a marker or odorizing taggant chemical....C-4 (explosive)C-4Blast yieldHigh19 more rows
What is c6 explosive?
C-6 "Flatfire" Plastic Explosive is grey block of plastique, can be detonated by timer, tripwire or signal. The basic blast radius for C-6 is 5m.
Can C4 destroy a tank?
C4 is a great anti-tank weapon if a LAW is not available. If the C4 is attached to the tank when it detonates, it will immediately destroy the tank.
Is there a C3 explosive?
Composition C2 was replaced by Composition C3, which was a mixture of 77% RDX and 23% explosive plasticizer. C3 was effective but proved to be too brittle in cold weather and was replaced with C4.
What is the most powerful military explosive?
Nitroglycerine, discovered in 1846, still remains the most powerful explosive in practical use. Many useful advances have been and are being made, but new explosives are merely new mixtures of old materials, given fancy names.