RDX (Research Department Explosive or Royal Demolition Explosive) or hexogen, [4] among other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH 2 N 2 O 2) 3. It is white, odorless, and tasteless, widely used as an explosive. [5] Chemically, it is classified as a nitroamine alongside HMX, which is a more energetic explosive than TNT.

黑索金（Hexogen，通用符号RDX），化学名为环三亚甲基三硝胺，又名为旋风炸药。 化学式为C 3 H 6 N 6 O 6 ，遇明火、高温、震动、撞击、磨擦能引起燃烧爆炸，是一种爆炸力极强大的烈性炸药，比TNT猛烈1.5倍。

2018年5月6日 · RDX or ‘Research Department Explosive,’ also dubbed Torpex, was surprisingly stable yet twice as powerful as TNT. Eventually, it would be used to blast through the hulls of Hitler’s U-boats, blow gaping holes in enemy dams in the Ruhr Valley and knock out bridges, railroad tracks and power stations across Nazi-occupied Europe.

2017年12月18日 · RDX was packed into 10,000-pound underwater bombs dropped by British airplanes to blow up German river dams and disrupt the country’s hydropower in the critical Dambuster campaign. It was even...

RDX, powerful explosive, discovered by Georg Friedrich Henning of Germany and patented in 1898 but not used until World War II, when most of the warring powers introduced it. Relatively safe and inexpensive to manufacture, RDX was produced on a large scale in the United States by a secret process

On December 7, 1941, with the surprise attack by Japanese carrier planes on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the United States’ policy of official neutrality toward Britain and its Allies was replaced by one of total victory over their common enemies.

Bom pantul yang digunakan dalam "Serangan Dambusters" masing-masing berisi 6.600 pon (3.000 kg) Torpex; Bom Tallboy dan Grand Slam yang dirancang oleh Barnes Wallis juga menggunakan Torpex. RDX diyakini telah digunakan dalam banyak rencana bom, termasuk rencana teroris. RDX adalah basis untuk sejumlah bahan peledak militer yang umum:

2018年4月23日 · He examines the debates between RDX advocates and their opponents in the Army Ordnance Department, as well as the use of the explosive in the bomber war over Germany, naval war in the Atlantic, and as a key element in the trigger device of the atomic bomb.

RDX was used in one of the first plastic explosives. RDX is believed to have been used in many bomb plots including terrorist plots. It was said to have been used in the Bombay (Mumbai) serial bomb blasts of March 12, 1993 in which more than 300 …

Royal Demolition Explosive (RDX) FACT SHEET . What is RDX? RDX stands for Royal Demolition Explosive. RDX is a man-made chemical that does not occur naturally in the environment. It...