What are Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)?
The military bomb, as we generally recognise it, is a ballistic shaped object filled with large quantities of explosive and dropped from aircraft from the air. It is designed to explode on impact when it reaches its target. But terrorists, criminals, extortionists and anti-social elements extensively use their own types of homemade bombs, called “Improvised Explosive Devices” or “IEDs”. EDs are often difficult to identify because they are constructed by terrorists entirely to their own design. As far as the technical aspects of constructing IEDs are concerned, devices have ranged from bombs made from normal everyday items, to highly sophisticated devices utilising digital components. Pipe bombs are one of the most common types of terrorist bomb. Steel, iron, aluminium or copper pipes that are widely available are used in pipe bombs and low-velocity explosives are tightly capped inside. The destructive powers of even small IEDs can be quite devastating if they incorporate military plast
