anti-personnel bomb


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Noun1.anti-personnel bomb - a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragmentsanti-personnel bomb - a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles
Big Blue, BLU-82 - a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan
bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
cluster bomb - bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area; "cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely"
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Ammunition and anti-personnel bomb moulds were also seized along with partially constructed armour-piercing explosive devices.
Ammunition and anti-personnel bomb moulds were also seized along with partially constructed armour-piercing explosive devices, which the ministry said were likely to be used as Vehicle-Improvised Explosive Devices (VIEDs).
Ammunition and anti-personnel bomb molds were also seized along with partially constructed armor-piercing explosive devices.
But during a follow-up search to declare the area safe a suspected anti-personnel bomb designed to "take out officers on foot" exploded.
Hamas's armed wing, the Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam, said its fighters had detonated an anti-personnel bomb as an Israeli army patrol passed, killing several troops.
The girls help rig each balloon with long hemp ropes that knot together to form a basket from which they hang an aluminum ring with built-in altitude sensors, a circle skirt of sandbags for ballast, and an automatic release for four incendiary canisters and a single dangling anti-personnel bomb, cradled like an egg in an eagle's claw.
An anti-personnel bomb hit the deck and he caught the full blast in his stomach.
But during a follow-up search by police to declare the area safe a suspected anti-personnel bomb exploded.
"There was one section which described how to make an anti-personnel bomb. In the wrong hands, the information could be deadly."
AFTER a Nazi air raid left the Essex countryside littered with hundreds of deadly anti-personnel bombs in 1943, a brave soldier stepped up to lead the mission to defuse them.