For decades, manufacturing plastic-bonded high explosives, or PBXs, has relied on legacy processes like slurry coating. In this method, explosive crystals are mixed with a binder, a polymer that helps ...

France scrapped gunpowder production in 2007 With EU help new facilities now online Aim to provide pellets for 100,000 artillery shells BERGERAC, France, March 21 (Reuters) - Automated systems ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research by Sandia National Laboratories to begin to discover ...

For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world’s weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is ...

The Butler County Bomb Squad recently responded to Hamilton after family members made an unusual discovery while cleaning out a deceased relative's belongings. Two boxes of black powder pellets were ...

BERGERAC, France (Reuters) - Automated systems splutter as raw materials are fed into the machines to begin the process of creating highly-explosive pellets ready to be harnessed for use in thousands ...