ANNM

ANNM ( ammonium nitrate & nitromethane ) is a mixed explosive .

This two-component explosive is highly explosive . The detonation speed of 6125 m / s is higher than that of dynamite . It is considered safe and insensitive to use. ANNM is more expensive than comparable ANC explosives . Like similar ammonium nitrate explosives, ANNM is hygroscopic ; due to the hydrophobic nitromethane, however, only weakly. A detonator is required to ignite the mixture . Such an explosive is manufactured and sold under the trademark Kinepak by SEC of Oklahoma City .

When the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed in 1995, a 2.4-tonne explosive device made by Timothy McVeigh and attributed to ANNM was used.

Individual evidence

↑ Kinepak. (PDF, 141 kB) Technical Data Sheet. SEC, archived from the original on January 25, 2014 ; accessed on October 12, 2013 (English, product description and data sheet from the manufacturer).
↑ Klaus-Henning Glitza: Car bombs - most frequently used terrorist means of crime ( Memento from August 12, 2020 in the Internet Archive ), in Sicherheitsmelder, March 31, 2013, Richard Boorberg Verlag.

[Nr.1-1] Kinepak. (PDF, 141 kB) Technical Data Sheet. SEC, archived from the original on January 25, 2014 ; accessed on October 12, 2013 (English, product description and data sheet from the manufacturer).

[Nr.2-2] Klaus-Henning Glitza: Car bombs - most frequently used terrorist means of crime ( Memento from August 12, 2020 in the Internet Archive ), in Sicherheitsmelder, March 31, 2013, Richard Boorberg Verlag.