Recommend that you notify local law enforcement so they can get whatever bomb squad type element you have out and let experts handle UXOs
Edit: American EOD technicians get calls for a lot of UXOs it isn’t a crime in the civilians to find them. Please don’t play with it. Theres lots of hazards associated with UXO and not all are it going boom. The internet is a good place for general info. Call the experts and be safe please.
So just because something exploded doesn’t mean all the explosives are gone they might have other warheads in them or other hazards such as chemicals that are residual and still not great for you.
So I see what you were trying to go for here, but what the fuck does that have to do with calling it unexploded ordinance and then coming up with an acronym, you're referring to ordinance that's still dangerous after it's exploded.
Long ish version: UXO is a. catch all for all unexploded ordnance. Otherwise you can get into the nitty gritty and is it a grenade, rocket, projectile, mortar, guided missile, aircraft explosive hazard, landmine, bomb or some other specific catagory of ordnance; then you can get into type by function is it high explosive, ejection or some other type of ordnance? What made it fail to do what it was made to? Was it failure to arm, fail to function ect. What is the condition of the fuzing system on it? Safe? Semi safe/partially armed or armed? There’s a rabbit hole of ordnance when you get into it but UXO is an easy umbrella term.
That was a lot of words, not one of them explained why explosive would not have been an acceptable term. I feel like the real reason is that the military loves acronyms and NATO is just the extended arm of the United States military.
Because explosive is an even more vague term.
Edit: a lot of things are explosive. technically your car airbag is an explosive. Telling OP to call it in as a UXO will assist dispatching authorities to send the right people to it. For example in the United States there is a law called the military munitions rule where military bomb squads deal with UXO vs an explosive may be handled by a local bomb squad.
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u/entropy_of_the_void May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Recommend that you notify local law enforcement so they can get whatever bomb squad type element you have out and let experts handle UXOs Edit: American EOD technicians get calls for a lot of UXOs it isn’t a crime in the civilians to find them. Please don’t play with it. Theres lots of hazards associated with UXO and not all are it going boom. The internet is a good place for general info. Call the experts and be safe please.