We'd dropped a five-hundred-pound laser-guided bomb with a delayed fuse on a group of men standing in a circle in a dusty field.
But the missile, which has a delayed fuse to increase damage to large vessels like aircraft carriers, ripped through the small boat without exploding, he said.
On 30 March at 16 30 the torpedoes from MTB 74, which were on a delayed fuse setting, exploded at the old entrance into the basin.
They then fire a whale bomb from a heavy rifle - a pointed brass tube filled with explosives and a delayed fuse so that it will detonate after burying itself deep in the whale's centre, the shrapnel destroying the heart or other vital organs.
The US has reportedly also added new Hellfire variants to its drone arsenal: specialized missiles for attacking vehicles, missiles with a delayed fuse designed to smash through walls and detonate inside buildings, and anti-personnel missiles with a metal sleeve that splinters upon detonation.
As the fuse burns round the barrage, a firing charge ignites at the bottom of each tube, simultaneously ejecting the cylinder and lighting a second "delay fuse", which goes off when the firework reaches its maximum height.
The most widely used type of shell was equipped with a delayed-action fuse that exploded after having penetrated up to 40 feet (12 metres) of concrete and earth.
Although a smoldering tree stump might seem relatively innocuous, it can act as a kind of time-delay fuse to start a major fire.
Carbon, in black powder, is a constituent of fireworks rocket propellants, bursting charges, and effects mixtures, and military delay fuses and igniters.
For six Taliban wallowing in a ditch, I figured that a pair of thousand-pound bombs, with delayed fuses, ought to do the trick.
