Use Forms of Explosives - Rubberized

Rubberized

Rubberized explosives are flat sheets of solid but flexible material, a mixture of a powdered explosive (commonly RDX or PETN) and a synthetic or natural rubber compound. Rubberized sheet explosives are commonly used for explosive welding and for various other industrial and military applications. Rubberized explosives can be cut to specific shape, bent around solid surfaces, glued or taped in place, or simply laid on relatively flat surfaces.

Some common rubberized explosives include:

• Detasheet - a discontinued DuPont product
  • Deta Flex - a DuPont military version of Detasheet
  • LX-02-1 - a DuPont Deta Flex variant used by the US Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs
• Primasheet - current Ensign-Bickford product line
  • Primasheet 1000 - Primasheet 1000 using PETN
  • Primasheet 2000 - Primasheet 2000 using RDX