PLX

Picatinny Liquid Explosive, ( PLX ) is a liquid explosive, composed of 95 % nitromethane and 5% ethylene diamine. The detonation velocity of 6000-7000 m / s, and thus does not reach the PETN and RDX.

The explosive was developed during the Second World War in the U.S. Army 's Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. Despite its high explosiveness PLX is due to its corrosive effect neither in the military nor the civilian sector application.

It is believed that PLX has been used as an explosive in 1987 at the assassination of the Flight 858 Korean Air. According to an agent of North Korea, the PLX said to have been smuggled in a bottle of whiskey on board.

  • Explosive
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