C-6 (explosive)

C-6 (explosive)

C-6 or Composition C-6 is a variety of military plastic explosive. It is about 1.4 times as explosive as the much better known C-4, and about 1.8 times more explosive as trinitrotoluene (TNT).

Vulnerable to heat, C-6 was the explosive on board the USS Forrestal when John McCain's A-4 first caught on fire.


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