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The War
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Iraq: EFP Attack (I) Against U.S. Military Convoy - December
2007 |
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Background “[…] When the United States military command accused the Iranian Quds
Force in January of providing the armor-piercing EFPs (explosively formed
penetrators) that were killing US troops, it knew that Iraqi machine shops
had been producing their own EFPs for years, […]. The record also shows that
the US command had considerable evidence that the Mahdi Army of Shi’ite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had received the technology and the training on how to
use it from Hezbollah, rather than Iran. […] British and US officials observed
from the beginning that the EFPs being used in Iraq closely resembled the
ones used by Hezbollah against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, both in
their design and the techniques for using them. […]” Excerpt of an Inter
Press Service article
from October 27th, 2007. |
U.S. humvee is hit by an EFP |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .wmv (9,2 MB) |
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Screenshots |
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Seconds before the attack |
Explosion |
Aftermath |
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Video Credits The Video 1) The original video was distributed through a CD Rom by the Iraqi
Shia Insurgent group “Asaeb Ahlul Al Haqq” aka “Imam Ali Brigades” in January
of 2008. According to the group, the video features attacks, which have been
carried out in several regions of Iraq such as Kalpia, Aboudecer and Karkh
during the end of 2007. Excerpts of the video footage, as shown on this page,
were then later included in a short report from February 25th,
2008 by the Lebanese television station “Al-Manar TV”. Background on EFPs 2) From wikipedia:
“An explosively formed penetrator (EFP), also known as an explosively formed
projectile, a self-forging warhead, or a self-forging fragment, is a special
type of shaped charge designed to penetrate armour effectively at stand-off
distances. […] “A conventional shaped charge generally has a conical metal liner that
projects a hypervelocity jet of metal able to penetrate to great depths into
steel armour; however, in travel over some distance the jet breaks up along
its length into particles that drift out of alignment, greatly diminishing
its effectiveness at a distance. “An EFP, on the other hand, has a liner in the shape of a shallow
dish.The force of the blast molds the liner into any of a number of
configurations, depending on how the plate is formed and how the explosive is
detonated. Sophisticated EFP warheads have multiple detonators that can be
fired in different arrangements causing different types of waveform in the
explosive, resulting in either a long-rod penetrator, an aerodynamic slug
projectile or multiple high-velocity fragments. A less sophisticated approach
for changing the formation of an EFP is the use of wire-mesh in front of the
liner: with the mesh in place the liner will fragment into multiple
penetrators. […]” |
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