c4 question > General Discussion

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:36:32 PM EDT

Does c4 explode when shot with a rifle? My buddy says yes but I'm not sure.

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:37:52 PM EDT

[#1]

They set a claymore off in SWAT with a pistol, so why not.

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:38:04 PM EDT

[#2]

your buddy is wrong

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:38:21 PM EDT

[#3]

No. C4 requires heat and pressure in order to detonate.

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:38:27 PM EDT

[#4]

I dont know. I think it would have to be lit first but then again an impact like that will generate some heat, dont know if its enough to detonate it. pop it wityh a tracer and you may get better results

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:40:06 PM EDT

[#5]

incendiary?

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:41:35 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
No. C4 requires heat and pressure in order to detonate.

Exactly.

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:42:51 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
They set a claymore off in SWAT with a pistol, so why not.

Yeah, but you can set off Claymores in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down by shooting them too. So that's at least gotta be true

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:43:43 PM EDT

[#8]

No you can shoot C-4, you can even set it on fire it won't set it off C-4 is a very stable explosive, the only thing that will set it off is a blasting cap, as C-4 requires a shockwave to go off, and a bullet will not produce nearly enough of a shockwave....

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:44:18 PM EDT

[#9]

Uh, if C4 were sensitive to gunfire, why would they use it in a combat zone?

The real answer is not only no but hell no. It takes a special military blasting cap to set it off. Using a regular blasting cap that is suitable for civillian dynamite will only spray bits of C4 everywhere.

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:44:36 PM EDT

[#10]

25# sledge hammer?

Posted: 3/26/2006 6:56:51 PM EDT

[#11]

I thought it had to be in the sole of a shoe and lit with a fuse?!?!?!?!

Maybe that's only on an airplane

Posted: 3/26/2006 7:15:58 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I thought it had to be in the sole of a shoe and lit with a fuse?!?!?!?!

Maybe that's only on an airplane

That was NOT C4. It was a ketone peroxide.

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