


“From a range of even five feet, I doubt if the tank crew will even feel the blast.Ragnar Benson wrote: * Acquiring New ID : How To Easily Use The Latest Technology To Drop Out, Start Over, and Get On with Your Life * Action Careers: Employment in the High-Risk Job Market * Breath Of The Dragon: Homebuilt Flamethrowers * Bull's Eye: Crossbow * David's Tool Kit: A Citizen's Guide to Taking Out Big Brother's Heavy Weapons * Do-It-Yourself Medicine: How to Find and Use the Most Effective Antibiotics, Painkillers, Anesthetics and Other Miracle Drugs. As a result of his success, the fellow urges neophyte tank killers to wait until the one tread of the machine is firmly over the explosive’s barrel, before attempting detonation. Stevens proved that 700 pounds of fuel-soaked ammonium nitrate detonating a relatively slow rate of 9,000 feet per second was capable of flipping a large tank. narrative of another book Homemade C4 - A Recipe for Survival Benson mentions that he. That night the tank was properly stripped of weapons and burnt. Ragnar Benson is the pen name of a prolific survivalist author who. The enemy ether did not know about their disabled tank, or did not have a tank retriever available to pick it up. Snipers then kept would-be salvagers away. Stevens and his men allowed the tank-crew members to run off. The tank was simply thrown over on its side, he said. Because the explosive was so slow, it did not break any significant pieces from the behemoth. He radio-detonated the charge from about 600 yards. After several long days waiting, a tank finally drove on top of his huge mine.

He and his crew carefully buried the barrel in a dry area along the side of a road where tanks commonly pulled over to refuel. Tim Stevens, a now-retired Marine major, had personal experience tipping over a Russian T-72 tank in Iraq, using a barrel (55 gallons) of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. What Ragnar Benson presents to us as Homemade C4 is just an improvised explosive known as ANNM (Ammonium Nitrate + Nitromethane or NH4NO3 + CH3NO2), whose public patent is US4093478A.
