E-Z Breach® products relate generally to devices for breaching structures, and more particularly to flexible, fillable, and/or inflatable bladders, commonly called "breach bags" or "breach bladders" and also known as "water impulse charge bladders" and "water  tamp charge bladders",  for use with explosive charges for breaching locked or barricaded doors, walls, roofs and ceilings.

Special weapons and tactic (SWAT) teams or other police and military personnel frequently use breaching apparatus to gain entry into locked and barricaded buildings, where criminals, terrorists, hostages, drug caches and the like are located.  SWAT teams routinely breach doors quickly by using battering rams, and/or explosive charges.  These devices can be employed singly or in combination to break the lock or hinges, or even to demolish the door frame itself.

It is known to use explosives to breach doors, but it is challenging to fashion a charge sufficient to blow open a door without causing injury to building occupants and while minimizing damage to property.

Explosive charges can be shaped and the blast wave concentrated by reinforcing certain areas surrounding the charge.  A shaped charge, by design, focuses its energy into a narrow blast trajectory, making it very accurate and controllable.  When size is added to that accuracy, the effect can be dramatic. 

Shaped charges were first developed after World War I to penetrate tanks and other armored equipment.

In recent years law enforcement agencies have discovered that it is possible to shape a suitable charge through the combination of detonating cord and conventional intravenous bags, plastic soda bottles, or similar containers.  To avoid the inconsistencies occasioned by such use, a flexible, foldable and easily portable apparatus was designed and has been successfully employed as a jacketing material for  breach charges.  The apparatus, hereafter referred to a a "breach bag" can be adapted to many different situations which necessitate the controlled penetration of a locked entryway, wall or armored surface.  Essentially, the breach bag incorporates one or more bladders that can be filled with water (or another non-compressible fluid) or sand.  By changing the configuration of the breach bag, a directed blast wave or a shaped charge projectile can be provided, the particular blast characteristics depending largely on the bladder configuration and contents.

New World Mfg. Inc. offers a variety of sizes and shapes of  water impulse charge bladders and water tamp charge bladders that provide trained explosive breachers with products that  produce minimal fragmentation, are easy to use, compact for shipping and storage,  versatile, result oriented, labor efficient, high quality and economical.

E-Z Breach® (SKU: EZB-30)   The basic breach bag, a water impulse charge bladder which takes the place of improvised  water impulse contact charges typically constructed from IV bags, plastic soda bottles or similar containers.

E-Z Breach®  Entry Port  (SKU: EZB-EP)      The largest  breaching bladder in the family,  a water tamp charge bladder, designed primarily to breach a wall and create an entry port of sufficient size to allow a person to enter through.  Fills 22 1/2" x 34" apex, width and length.

E-Z Breach®  Narrow Gun Port (SKU: EZB-GP14)    E-Z Breach®  Narrow Gun Port is a water tamp charge bladder that fills 14" x 21 1/2" at the apex, width and length, and manufactured for use between 16" wall studs. 

E-Z Breach®  Wide Gun Port  (SKU: EZB-GP24)    E-Z Breach® Wide Gun Port is a water tamp charge bladder , when filled measures 24" x 24"  at the apex where the charge is placed. 

E-Z Breach®  Round Gun Port  (SKU: EZB-RGP)    E-Z Breach® Round Gun Port  is a water tamp charge bladder which  measures 20" in diameter at the apex  when filled.

E-Z Breach®  Looped Hinge Bladder  (SKU: EZB-LHB)   E-Z Breach® Looped Hinge Bladder  is a water impulse charge bladder . It is an single elongated, looped bladder  which measures 4" x 74"  empty and has a center open channel for insertion of a charge.  For use on the center of the door  or along the door hinge.

For detailed information and pictures on each of the above products, click on Products at bottom of page, click on product name.

Other products are being developed and will be released as research and development is completed.