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  • Thumbnail for Pencil detonator
    hollow centre of the detonator, hitting the percussion cap at the other end of the detonator. Number ten delay switches had delays ranging from 10 minutes...
    11 KB (1,477 words) - 14:23, 12 October 2024
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    primer that ignites a fuze (sometimes called the delay element), which burns down to the detonator and explodes the main charge. Grenades work by dispersing...
    38 KB (4,065 words) - 02:48, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Artillery fuze
    firing pin into a detonator. The early British fuze at left is an example. Direct action fuze designs are 'super-quick' but may have a delay option. 20th-century...
    35 KB (5,041 words) - 13:32, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition
    the shorting bar (a safety device across the detonator). After a 60-second (nominal) electronic time delay, a piston actuator in the Safe and Arm (S&A)...
    6 KB (510 words) - 21:20, 27 October 2024
  • bunker has been sealed off, and instructs him to find dynamite and a detonator to reopen the exit and begs for Henri to kill him. Boisrond is attacked...
    16 KB (1,793 words) - 22:12, 1 November 2024
  • populated by Satan's minions to retrieve Anton's spirits, then activate a detonator and return to the beginning of each level before it collapses. Anton's...
    9 KB (1,009 words) - 00:40, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Time bomb
    Delay-action bomb (bombs dropped by aircraft with a delay to increase damage/disruption) Improvised explosive device ("home-made" bombs with a delay to...
    14 KB (371 words) - 16:30, 12 October 2024
  • propagation from the detonator pellet to the booster explosive. Most artillery contact fuzes act immediately, although some may have a delay. This allows a...
    9 KB (1,219 words) - 20:43, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for M734 fuze
    the fuze. These are the Microdet electric detonator, the explosive lead, the explosive booster, and the delay primer assembly functioning as follows: In...
    15 KB (2,024 words) - 16:59, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for PMN mine
    holds a spring-loaded striker back from the stab-detonator. Pulling out the ring-pull starts an arming delay, which comprises a thin steel wire (held under...
    14 KB (1,824 words) - 20:29, 31 October 2024
  • with conventional detonators in abundance. The scheduled completion date for Iranian warheads that have functioning nuclear detonators is vague and not...
    133 KB (13,537 words) - 04:36, 27 September 2024
  • bore safety" can be achieved with mechanical shutters that isolate the detonator from the main charge until the shell is fired. A fuze may contain only...
    26 KB (3,251 words) - 20:06, 15 September 2024
  • Law Abiding Citizen (category 2009 action drama films)
    while Dunnigan closes off the secret passage. Hearing the ringtone of the detonator, Clyde discovers the bomb Nick hid underneath his bed. Clyde briefly smiles...
    20 KB (2,200 words) - 22:41, 23 October 2024
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout (category 2010s spy action films)
    circuit, meaning defusing one bomb will trigger the other unless the detonator is first disabled. At the camp, Ethan discovers Julia and her new husband...
    178 KB (14,079 words) - 08:43, 7 November 2024
  • College, Oxford and Christ's College, Cambridge. After war work on delayed action detonators, Nye joined the British Colonial Service, and in 1947 was sent...
    6 KB (667 words) - 16:43, 5 August 2024
  • The Greatest of All Time (category 2020s spy action films)
    of his brother-in-law, Seenu, and Jeevitha, manages to get hold of the detonator. He subdues Jeevan's henchman, confronts him, and finally kills him atop...
    143 KB (10,806 words) - 13:05, 7 November 2024
  • dynamite, along with a large quantity of detonators and incendiary cord. They left the site at 4 a.m. This action remained unknown to the police until 1973...
    73 KB (10,045 words) - 12:41, 12 September 2024
  • Priest (2011 film) (category 2011 action thriller films)
    Priestess battles several Familiars, but one destroys the explosives' detonator. To accomplish her mission, she mounts the explosives on her motorbike...
    23 KB (2,246 words) - 23:57, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercury-Atlas 6
    ship's crew to stand clear and hit the hatch detonator plunger with the back of his hand. The detonator plunger recoiled, and slightly cut the astronaut's...
    43 KB (5,051 words) - 07:39, 4 October 2024
  • which had been seized by the Abwehr from captured SOE agents. The pencil detonator consisted of a thin copper tube containing copper chloride that would...
    11 KB (1,557 words) - 16:11, 19 October 2024
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