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On 31 Dec 2010 03:54:07 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
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On 2010-12-30, Gunner Asch wrote:
On 30 Dec 2010 02:57:46 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
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What does C4/semtex look like?


Playdough

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

O.K. Not the white fuel blocks which I was remembering.

I sort of figured that you would have an answer to my question.

Thanks,
DoN.


It does come in different colors btw..Semtex A, Semtex 10 and so forth
all come in different colors. Its simply an indicator of bursting
speed/burn rate IRRC. Red, Yellow, White, Blue. I think H (most
common) is often uncolored as its manufactured and dispersed to
organizations that really would have it not marked as to manufacture etc
etc. New agreements should make it an orange color.

Humm...less see....

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...mpositions.htm

Semtex

Semtex is an explosive containing both RDX and PETN. Semtex, a
Czech-made explosive, has been used in many terrorist bombings. Dynamite
has been replaced by the more destructive and easily concealed Semtex.
SEMTEX is a plastic explosive that is odorless. SEMTEX along with a
detonating cap, can be inserted inside a 5" x 6" musical greeting card,
undetected. Three pounds of Semtex plastique packs enough punch to raze
a two-story building. Terrorists attack with no warning and no
rationale. Their weapon of choice is a pliable, odorless substance that
is twice as powerful as TNT and is virtually invisible to conventional
security devices. It can be hidden in a brief case or a small cassette
recorder.

Czechoslovakia was among the world's chief arms exporters. It sold
hundreds of tanks, thousands of firearms and large quantities of Semtex
to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cambodia and other trouble spots, a
practice that stopped long ago. In 1985 and 1986, the Irish Republican
Army [IRA] took delivery of nearly 120 tons of arms and explosives from
Libya, including a ton of Semtex explosive and 12 SAM-7 surface-to-air
missiles. Some of those weapons and explosives have been used by the IRA
in terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and in other European
countries. Libyan terrorists used Semtex in 1988 to down Pan Am Flight
103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 persons.

The on-again, off-again export of the general-purpose plastic explosive
Semtex, manufactured in Czechoslovakia during the height of the Cold War
and linked to terrorist groups around the world, resumed in 1994. The
Czech Republic recently announced that exports were beginning to
selected countries. The first Semtex shipment under the resumed
exportswent to the British Defense Ministry. Czech reporting suggested
that the British authorities intend to run experiments on the explosive
that is often used by Irish Republican Army terrorists-including the
October 1993 destruction of a building in Belfast.

According to the 1991 international convention signed in Montreal,
Semtex intended for industrial applications is to be a bright red-orange
color and detectable by security-monitoring equipment. Variants of the
explosive produced for civilian purposes are also less powerful than the
nearly odorless version that became a favorite weapon of terrorists.
Despite this and the export ban that had earlier been in place, Semtex
continues to be smuggled across borders.

Substantial quantities of the explosive have been stolen from industrial
enterprises in the Czech and Slovak republics for sale on the black
market. Shortly before the most recent ban was lifted, Czech police
seized 100 kilograms of industrial Semtex from a group of Czech citizens
who were planning its illegal sale abroad. In Slovakia in October 1993,
some 900 kilograms of the explosive were stolen from the warehouse of a
private firm, together with more than 2,000 detonators. Czech officials
candidly admit that they have no idea how much Semtex has been stolen or
illegally diverted, and the continued black market trade in the
explosive seems certain.

http://www.securesearchinc.com/catalog/Semtex.htm

"colors of different types of Semtex (Semtex-H, Semtex S1A and Semtex
10—each being a different color.) ......

Gunner

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