Frag Bag
Bomb Containment System
QinetiQ North America manufactures a low-cost, highly deployable bomb containment system called “Frag Bag.” Developed in the late 1990s by QinetiQ North America, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and members of the New Mexico State Police, the Frag Bag is designed to contain fragments and mitigate the blast overpressure from a typical 2 inch diameter, 8 inch long pipe bomb charged with 1 pound of Pyrodex® propellant. It has also been successfully tested against 2 ounces of C4.
A Frag Bag weighs less than 25 pounds and is manportable. It can be used by public safety, private security, postal service and corporate mail room personnel.
- Compatible with bomb disposal robots
- Fitted with a number of “grab points” so that it can be opened, loaded, closed and transported with a bomb stick or remote manipulator
- Fits easily into the trunk of a cruiser or car
- Dissipates and deflects overmatch blast up and away from personnel and public
- Captures fragments for forensics
- Can also be used to improve safety in the routine transport of small pyrotechnics such as detonator caps or detonation cord