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improvised explosive device |
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A device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destuctive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy, incapacitate, harass, or distract. It may incorporate military stores, but is normally devised from nonmilitary components. Also called IED. |
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| Sinking a cargo ship with an improvised explosive device to block a commercial shipping route--one common scenario--would be difficult owing to modern ship design, and sunken ships even then could be cleared quickly from shipping lanes. described how an improvised explosive device shattered the Humvee vehicle carrying him and three others. SGT Smith was killed on 14 September 2006 by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) in Baghdad. |
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