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by dogma1138 2896 days ago
The military will end up using composite explosives so they don’t call them by their compound name. C4 is just an RDX mixed in a stabilizing polymer putty (Semtex is the same with PETN added to the mix), the vast majority of explosives used these days are “PBX” or Polymer Bonded Explosives so the military will end up giving it some classification code which is easy to remember and write down on supply orders like C10 or w/e.