IRAM
IRAM is the name given to the low-tech rocket-propelled bombs used by Shiite militants in Iraq. IRAM stands for Improvised Rocket Assisted Munitions. The improvised devices use rockets to launch explosive packed propane tanks. The rockets are launched by remote control.
Fast Facts
- IRAM: Improvised Rocked Assisted Munitions
- Propane tanks packed with explosives, powered by rockets
- Launched at close range
- Launchers set on the back of trucks
- Most IRAM attacks occurred in Baghdad
- IRAMs the cause of 21 deaths as of July 20081
- Improvised explosive devices are known as IEDs
- IRAMs are sometimes called "flying IEDs"
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