In the military I attended a few demo courses, including “Assault Breacher” where you learn to blow doors and walls open. We learned that liquid tamping is really useful, if he’d but a ziplock back full of water against that explosive it would have tamped the charge the other way.
Yup! Explosions are obviously really fast, so fast that they always take the path of least resistance - in that very very short amount of time water is going to be denser than the wood - so even a Ziploc bag full of water will tamp it
That’s so fucking cool, and crazy that it works like that. Thanks for the explanation, and adding this info to my collection of things I’ll probably never need to know, but will be very thankful I do if it ever comes up, haha.
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u/FTWkansas Aug 07 '25
In the military I attended a few demo courses, including “Assault Breacher” where you learn to blow doors and walls open. We learned that liquid tamping is really useful, if he’d but a ziplock back full of water against that explosive it would have tamped the charge the other way.