Booby traps

Here s a safe and quick way of booby trapping an automobile without wiring into the ignition switch. 

Make a hole through a Vt pound or larger explosive charge (TNT, dynamite, plastic) so a blasting cap can be inserted all the way through the charge. 

Insert the blasting cap through the hole in the explosive so that the tip of the cap touches (is grounded against) the engine block. Except for the tip, the explosive end of the cap should be surrounded by explosive. 

Make sure that the cap wire is not near or touching any metal except the spark plug, otherwise there might be an accidental grounding at that point, resulting in a misfire. 

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A booby trap device which may be activated by a pull wire or by tilting of object to which applied, such as luggage, door handle, or hinged cover of box. 

To use, secure the device to the object to be booby trapped, with the mercury drained away from the ends of the hookup wires. Check to be sure the circuit is open before making final connections to battery and blasting cap. 

This is a booby trap firing device which may be concealed in a cigar box, book, package or under any object heavy enough to hold the arm of the mousetrap in a cocked position. 

This device employs a modified mechanical fuse lighter to construct a booby trap or a firing device which can be controlled by the operator. 

This device employs a modified fuse lighter to initiate a booby trap when the target applies pressure—such as in an antivehicle mine or a derailment system. 

This technique provides a method of initiating primacord—-and thus any explosive charge—if a regular blasting cap is not available. The device may be rigged as a booby trap with trip wire or it can be fired remotely by the operator. Since the technique does require the destruction of a usable rifle it likely would be used only when there is no other alternative. In addition, care should be taken in all phases of the preparation, because when the weapon is fired it will break into many fragments which would severely injure anyone holding the weapon or close to it. 

The U.S. 3.5" high explosive antitank rocket (or similar rockets used by other modem military forces) can be cannibalized or altered and used in a variety of improvised techniques. It can be placed as a shaped charge or land mine or it can be launched either electrically or nonelectrically without use of the rocket launcher. Such improvised firing offers the advantages of rigging the rocket as a booby trap or, at least, permitting the operator to be well out of the area before the rocket fires. 

Attempt to identify agent or weapon, type of dissemination (aerosol/liquid/vapor/solid), and characteristics of the agent and threats posed. Search the area for secondary explosive devices or booby-traps designed to kill or maim first responders. Limit the number of personnel and exposure time on scene. 

The rescuing of survivors, treatment of casualties, and making the scene safe are aU likely to be priority tasks at any bombing incident, and additional potential hazards from fires, damaged buildings in a state of near coUapse, unexploded devices, or deliberately placed booby traps must also be home in mind. A cordon around the scene should be established at the earliest possible moment to control access and ensure the preservation of evidence. 

Mines contg expl charges are called "service" mines, and those with inert filling "inert or "practice mines". There are also land mines known as "booby traps" (See Ref 44, p B242-R and FM 5 31). 

High-explosive train) 181-84 (Small arms primers) 235-39 (Fuzes for hand grenades) 241-50 (Firing devices for antipersonnel mines and booby traps) 257 (Fuze for rifle grenade) 259-60 (Fuze for 2.36-inch rocket) 263-67 (Fuze for antitank mine) ... 

B225 to B241 (BOMBS) B242 (Booby trap) B243 to B246 (BOOSTER) C73 to C77 (CARTRIDGE AMMUNITION) C78 to C80 (Cartridge case)... 

Lyle Stuart Inc, NY (1971), Expls Booby Traps, pp 132—51 7) K. Saxon, The Poor... 

As to Japanese ammunition itself, one can point out the great variety of improvised devices, such as Mines Depth Charges made from wooden boxes, burlap bags with rubber lining, oil drums Grenades made of pottery, glass gas pipes Booby Traps made of tin cans and Bangalore Torpedoes made of bamboo tubes... 

Booby Traps (Yugekiteki jirai). See under Mines (Land) and Booby Traps... 

The bangalores were used primarily for destruction of wire entanglements, but also to clear passages thru mine fields and destroy railroad tracks. They may be rigged as booby traps (Compare with US Models described in Vol. 2 of Encycl, pp B16-B17)... 

Japanese mining techniques were characterized by an almost complete lack of uniformity In Chapter VI of Ref 1, entitled Japanese Mines and Booby Traps are briefly described and rather poorly illustrated various Army and Navy Land Mines (pp 210 to 228)... 

Hand Grenade and 12 blocks l A" by %" of 66.6/33.3—RDX/A1 compn, each wrapped in waxed paper. It could be used as an A/Tk Mine when fuzed with an armed grenade or as an A/P Mine or Booby Trap when armed with pull or tension detonator (p 219, Fig 165) Air-Strip Land Mine consisted of 31 100-kg bombs stacked around PA blocks in which electrical detonators were inserted. The ensemble was under a turf-covered piece of sheet iron that would close the circle and fire the charge if the iron were lifted or depressed. A clockwork was also inserted to fire the chge if the iron were not depressed (p 220, Fig 166, upper half)... 

Following items which are actually Sabotage Devices are described in Ref 1, pp 231—32 Sucker Traps were devices set in living quarters, abandoned equipment, etc, mainly for the purpose of lowering the enemy s morale. Besides the various Booby Traps described here under MINES, the following items were used by the Japanese ... 

Tin Can Booby Trap consisted of a regular American tin can which was filled with expl chge and provided with a friction pull igniter and trip wire (p 232, Fig 380)... 

Yasenho (Field Gun) Yugekiteki jirai (Booby Trap). See under MINES... 

Booby trap A concealed or camouflaged device designed to injure or kill personnel. 

In Vietnam, FAE cleared out mine fields booby traps, and opened up helicopter landing fields (Ref 15)... 

The first bombs developed by the US Navy, CBU-55, were used in Vietnam, and tests to perfect an advanced version of the weapons system have continued. The CBU-55B air-to-surface free-fall cluster bombs were developed for helicopter.and siow-speed fixed-wing aircraft delivery to clear helicopter landing zones of mines booby traps. This FAE bomb was designed to disperse a mixt of vaporized fuel (ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, m e thy lacetylene/propa diene/pro pane and others) in a cloud 50 ft in dram and approx 8 ft thick. It has three 100-lb individual canisters 13.6 inches in diam by 21 inches long, each containing ca 72 lbs of fuel. The canisters separate from the dispenser after... 

Friction Firing Devices. One Pull-Friction Type Firing Device, M2, is described in Vol 4 pp D770-R D771-L R with Fig 26. It has been used for firing booby traps... 

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