Ahmed Ressam, the al-Qaeda Millennium Bomber, used a small quantity of RDX as one of the components in the bomb that he prepared to detonate in Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999–2000; the bomb could have produced a blast forty times greater than that of a devastating car bomb.

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C3H6N6O6，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 enabled the bazooka — the world’s first hand-held anti-tank rocket launcher — to pierce armor. RDX was packed into 10,000-pound underwater bombs dropped by British airplanes to blow up...

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 developed in the United States and Canada .

2025年1月8日 · By making a bomb with the powerful explosive RDX, Shamsud-Din Jabbar was mimicking the tactics of terrorist groups operating in the Middle East, experts say. Shamsud-Din Jabbar prepares to...

On 6 August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.... World War II had been over for five years. The incredible saga of RDX and the phenomenal accomplishments of Tennessee Eastman Company and Holston Ordnance Works were fading into the recent past.

RDX can also be mixed with another explosive, such as trinitrotoluene (TNT), to produce a bursting charge for aerial bombs, mines (Claymore), and blasting caps. RDX is commonly found at hand...

2018年4月23日 · Behind thirty-eight miles of fences, thousands of local men and women synthesized twenty-three thousand tons of RDX each month, enough to supply the entire Allied army, air force, and navy. RDX was added to torpedo warheads, airborne antisubmarine depth charges, and a mounted antisubmarine weapon called the Hedgehog.

RDX is a nitramine explosive compound (Turley and Brewster 1987) that can be utilized as a propellant, gunpowder, or high explosive depending on the initiation type (Boileau et al. 2009). RDX has both military and civilian applications.