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LAPD blast containment truck fails, seventeen people injured 6

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The first hit I got was this.
I wouldn't be surprised if this one is accurate too. ;-)

I hade a similar experience when I was working at the regiment, but then the rolls where reversed, I think my boss set me up for prank. [lol]

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Fancy British Rolex wearing bomb techs know better.


As others have mentioned, I too would only want to use a rotating breach lock type door, or at least a door that is mounted inside sphere. The LAPD design optimized robotic and remote loading.
 
Some pictures for review.

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I think this is the weakest link if the hatch for som reason isn't properly seal tight and pressure pushes the looking halves apart that threaded rod isn't going to cut it.

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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein
 
Yep that's series two.

I prefer series 1

The whole setup seems like an accident waiting to happen to be honest.


The royal navy hardly ever defuse they always blow in situ they also have collosal manuals on all munitions. There are still teams combing the beaches in the UK finding stuff. Alot of them are 2nd 3rd generation Poles after ww2. Felix used to be part of the Royal Logistics Corps made up of Ammunition technicians but there was ways and means round that technicality. It deals with the high threat IED type stuff. Sappers RAF and Navy just deal with munitions
 
Anna,

It seems to be a bit of a Swedish expression "We thought it would go well".....

Looks like they blew the aerial off the roof as well!

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Yes [lol]
I think the expression has a slightly other meaning then the English translation but it is pretty close.
I think that the reason that this expression pops up so often, is that in Sweden most people is not afraid to admit that something has gone wrong or is done wrong.
In most situations there are no konsekvens, just a possibility to make something better.
And if no one got badly hurt or died, it is easy to admit that something went wrong and you didn't have as good control or insight as you thought you hade.

The police report themselves
The police also state that they will review their routines when it comes to handing out seized items.
At the same time, the police have reported the incident to the Swedish Work Environment Authority and to the Police Authority's Special Investigations, which SR first reported.

- It is of course serious and due to that we have to work on reviewing our routines, says John Andåker acting local police area manager in Linköping to the radio channel.

The police department for special investigations has written off a report of misconduct regarding the handling of the bomb that exploded on a moped in Linköping.

- No preliminary investigation has been initiated against police employees as a result. It has been written off, says Mats Ericsson at the Public Prosecutor's Office for special investigations.

It was the police in Linköping who submitted the report on Tuesday.

- There was no crime by the police to investigate that emerged from the documents that came to me, says Ericsson.

- It mostly looks like an accident.

The moped containing explosives was seized by the police and in the explosion that was triggered when the bomb guard was working on the object, one of the police buildings was destroyed.

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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
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I was wondering about have they managed to make a controlled blast. [ponder]
Radio remote seems out of the question and wire.
I would have guessed a timer set device.

But here is a wire, so how do they get it inside without a hole somewhere?

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Maybe they should have bought a Dynasafe instead ;-)
Didn't know it was Swedish made actually.

It loos like the LA one is a NABCO 64-GT-SCS.

Dose not say anything about how you trigger a explosion inside the NABCO.

The Sweidish Dynasafe you can buy a add on heating system capable of raising the temperature of the loading tray to approximately 662°F, causing explosives to burn or detonate.

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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
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Well lots of speculation going on here, so I'll add my own:

The LAPD vessel was a proven design, but obviously, something went amiss.

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
 
At least from tugboats pictures I think it looks lik, the hatch was blow open and as you sade the explosion was quit "uniform" symmetric in the beginning.
And the blast compartment "bowl" was pushed forward as a bullet then twisted, in some video you can see that the blast fire changes to left looking from the front at the end of the explosion.
I think it is the hatch opening you see here from tugs picture.

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That would be very unlikely unless the unit was used often for years, with no lubrication nor maintenance.

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This was sort of the proverbial "An immovable force meets an immovable object" scenario.

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The truck is super clean in that picture but the topp and bottom off the hatch frame isn't.
There are also rubber sealings, they are to prevent gas leakage.
But it looks like there has been leakages from earlier explosions.

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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
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That could just be poor clean-up after the last use.

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I don't think the seal is particularly important in this design. Dik's post alludes to the lid being found in tact some distance away so this is looking like a failure of the clamping system that retains the lid.
 
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