Concentrated load

The title of this article is ambiguous. A description of the film with Jean-Claude Van Damme can be found under Concentrated Load - Double Impact

Since the First World War, a means of fighting tanks has been called a concentrated load .

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Concentrated cargo (center left) in World War II

Military

In the military field, a concentrated charge was formed by tying several hand grenades to their pots in order to cause a simultaneous detonation. With the increased explosive force, weaker armor or walls could be penetrated. This makeshift device was still used against armored combat vehicles during World War II , before other anti-tank weapons were available.

Civil

In civilian use, a concentrated charge normally means an explosion in which the explosive (unlike in a quarry) is attached to the explosive object without a drill hole and is intended to achieve a punctiform effect. Since the explosive is exposed or is only dammed up by loose material, a multiple of the load is required that would be needed for the same blast in a borehole. This blasting method is therefore usually only used as a makeshift method, for example when blasting knapsacks (large blocks in the quarry that were undesirably formed during blasting) or when blasting trees (wind thrown under tension).

Transferred word meanings

During the Second World War there was also an entertainment brochure for the Wehrmacht entitled Concentrated Charge , which contained samples of politically approved “Front” and “ Landser ” humor.

The expression "concentrated load" has been used as a slang term on the one hand for an accumulation of bad news, accusations, blows or the like, on the other hand it can also be meant positively: "With us you get the concentrated load of special offers, fun, Entertainment etc ”.

literature

• Thomas Baunacke, Hellmut Heinze (Hrsg.): Explosive technology - areas of application and processes. (2 ed.), Deutscher Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-342-00653-6 , p. 107.