The current state-of-the-art military explosive is HMX at a cost of about US$100/kg. The photo above makes clear that CL-20 is considerably more powerful than HMX, demonstrating about 40 percent ...

SEBEX 2 uses a composition based on high-melting explosive (HMX). This composition is expected to substantially increase the lethality of warheads, aerial bombs, artillery shells, and other munitions.

Largely ignored since the mid-1950s, the U.S. energetics industry—the foundation of every explosive device in the military—has withered away, ... (RDX) and High Melting Explosive (HMX) ...

The first neutral nitrogen molecule – other than dinitrogen – has been isolated and characterised by researchers in Germany.

Chemring Group received an order valued at $83 million for explosives after signing a 15-year partnership agreement with U.S. aerospace and defense technology company, Northrop Grumman. The U.K ...

By one reckoning, shaped-charge explosives made with CL-20 have up to 40% more armour-penetrating power than those made with HMX. It also shows promise as a propellant. Of the molecule’s 36 ...

Often used in combination with other high explosives, it is valued by militaries because it is more powerful than TNT and more stable than HMX, meaning it is less likely to detonate unexpectedly ...