This paper aimed at the safety problems of the explosive production lines, analyzed the state of entrucking industrial explosive, and calculated the distance that sympathetic detonation do not happen.
Use of ammonia gas: fertilizer and various ammonia containing compound, various amidogen, acyl and other ammonia containing testing agents (explosives) etc.
Each of these defensive missiles maybe only about 10 feet long but has some 24 pounds of high explosives and when they're close enough they detonate, obliterating everything in that part of the sky.
It took explosives to get the thing off the ground but once it did, it lifted almost a mile high before onlookers in Colorado were left in awe, awe, awe.