{"id":4401,"date":"2023-01-03T01:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:39:15","slug":"what-is-an-unexploded-ordnance-uxo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-an-unexploded-ordnance-uxo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A military ammunition or explosive device that remains unexploded<\/strong> even after it has been primed and fired is known as Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) in military parlance.<\/li>\n<li>Such UXO can be <strong>left-overs from a war, a military battle inoculation exercise, field firing exercises<\/strong> or even be part of military scrap that is often exported from one country to another to extract metal.<\/li>\n<li>All unexploded munitions are <strong>treated as potentially dangerous and capable of detonating till proven otherwise<\/strong> by professional assessment by military ammunition experts.<\/li>\n<li>Unexploded ordnance such as the artillery shell found near the Punjab CM&#8217;s residence can be used as an Improvised Explosive Device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is pyrotechnic substance?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A pyrotechnic substance is a substance or mixture of substances designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as the result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/what-is-unexploded-ordnance-and-how-does-it-get-into-civilian-hands-8358205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bombshell found near Punjab CM house: What is unexploded ordnance, how does it fall into civilian hands<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexploded Ordnance is a military ammunition device that remains unexploded even after been primed and fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}