Fragmentation, charge-initiated/-remote

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. 

Whenever the operation to be performed involves the potential to cause the initiation of the propellant, explosive or pyrotechnic (PEP) component(s) of a munition item, the APE is either operated by remote control, with the operator behind a protection wall or barrier, or it is enclosed in a protective barricade or operational shield. Barricades or operational shields are designed to protect personnel and assets from the effects of blast overpressures, thermal effects or fireball, and fragments result from the initiation of PEP components, such as the fuze, primer, propelling charge, burster, etc. 

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