Editing Explosive belt (section)

==History==
The Chinese used explosive vests during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://war.163.com/15/0427/09/AO6TATTL00014OMD.html|title=台儿庄巷战:长官电令有敢退过河者 杀无赦_网易军事 |trans-title=Taierzhuang Street Fight: The Chief Executive Order has the courage to retreat to the river |last=网易|website=war.163.com |language=zh |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619140144/http://war.163.com/15/0427/09/AO6TATTL00014OMD.html |archive-date=2018-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.88p4.com/2015/04/27/taierzhuang-street-fighting-executive-power-to-make-those-who-have-dared-to-retreat-across-the-river-unforgiven-124486.html|title=Taierzhuang street fighting : Executive power to make those who have dared to retreat across the river Unforgiven - Netease International News|first=Bun|last=Wong|language=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020023846/http://www.88p4.com/2015/04/27/taierzhuang-street-fighting-executive-power-to-make-those-who-have-dared-to-retreat-across-the-river-unforgiven-124486.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 }}</ref> A Chinese soldier detonated a grenade vest and killed 20 Japanese at [[Defense of Sihang Warehouse#29 October|Sihang Warehouse]]. Chinese troops strapped explosives like grenade packs or dynamite to their bodies and threw themselves over Japanese tanks to blow them up.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Schaedler|first=Luc|title=Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet: Literary, Historical, and Oral Sources for a Documentary Film|publisher=University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts|url=http://www.zora.uzh.ch/17710/3/Angry_Monk_Dissertation.pdf|type=Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719204815/http://www.zora.uzh.ch/17710/3/Angry_Monk_Dissertation.pdf|archive-date=2014-07-19|year=2007|page=518|access-date=24 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> This tactic was used during the [[Battle of Shanghai]], where a Chinese suicide bomber stopped a Japanese tank column by exploding himself beneath the lead tank,<ref>{{cite book|title=Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze|first=Peter|last=Harmsen|edition=illustrated|year=2013|publisher=Casemate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpPUAgAAQBAJ&q=shanghai+grenade+tanks+japanese&pg=PT127|page=112|isbn=978-1612001678|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref> and at the [[Battle of Taierzhuang]], where Chinese troops rushed at Japanese tanks and blew themselves up with dynamite and grenades.<ref>{{cite journal |date=Summer 2001 |title=Chinese Tank Forces and Battles before 1949 |url=http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Stories/emagazine-3/tanks/Chinese_Tank_Forces_and_Battles_before_1945_ed.htm |journal=TANKS! E-Magazine |issue=#4 |access-date=2 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807012533/http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Stories/emagazine-3/tanks/Chinese_Tank_Forces_and_Battles_before_1945_ed.htm |archive-date=7 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Xin Hui |date=August 1, 2002 |title=Xinhui Presents: Chinese Tank Forces and Battles before 1949 |url=http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Stories/Newsletter1-8-2/xinhui.htm |journal=Newsletter 1-8-2002 Articles |access-date=2014-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808050643/http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Stories/Newsletter1-8-2/xinhui.htm |archive-date=2014-08-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=China Condensed: 5000 Years of History & Culture|first=Siew Chey|last=Ong|edition=illustrated|year=2005|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bt7q8hfiZ4gC&q=taierzhuang+suicide+bombers&pg=PA94|page=94|isbn=9812610677|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url= http://numistamp.com/Taierzhuang-1938----Stalingrad-1942-(Page-1).php |title= Taierzhuang 1938 – Stalingrad 1942 |last1= Olsen |first1= Lance |date= 2012 |website= Numistamp |publisher= Clear Mind Publishing |isbn= 978-0-9838435-9-7 |access-date= 24 April 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140426040700/http://numistamp.com/Taierzhuang-1938----Stalingrad-1942-%28Page-1%29.php |archive-date= 26 April 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=China Condensed: 5,000 Years of History & Culture|author=Dr Ong Siew Chey|year=2011|publisher=Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd|isbn=978-9814312998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdKIAAAAQBAJ&q=japanese+tanks+suicide+bombers&pg=PA79|page=79|edition=reprint|access-date=April 24, 2014}}</ref>  During one incident at Taierzhuang, Chinese suicide bombers destroyed four Japanese tanks with grenade bundles.<ref>{{cite book|title=International Press Correspondence, Volume 18|year=1938|publisher=Richard Neumann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRlWAAAAYAAJ&q=Thus,+for+instance,+a+group+of+Chinese+soldiers,+in+spite+of+heavy+artillery+fire,+attacked+a+column+of+Japanese+tanks+with+hand-grenades+and+destroyed+four+tanks,+sacrificing+their+own+lives.+These+courageous+soldiers+thereby+opened+the+way+for+the+Chinese+troops.+According+to+reports+from+Shanghai,+the+losses+of+the+Japanese+army+operating+on+the+eastern+front+amounted+in+February+to+5,400+killed+and+12,700+wounded.+400+oificers+were+killed+or+wounded.+In+March+35+Japanese|page=447|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The people's war|first=Israel|last=Epstein|year=1939|publisher=V. Gollancz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TevqAAAAIAAJ&q=The+men+in+the+trenches+waited+till+the+tanks+came+close,+then+jumped+out+and+threw+bundles+of+hand-+grenades+under+their+wheels+and+into+their+ports.+Four+tanks+were+destroyed,+neatly+pierced+by+anti-tank+shells,+and+nine+others+were|page=172|access-date=24 April 2014}}</ref>

The use of [[Suicide attack|suicidal attacks]] to inflict damage upon an enemy predates the [[Second World War]], in which [[Kamikaze#First unit|Kamikaze units]] (suicidal air attacks) and [[Kaiten]] ("living torpedoes") were used to attack [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces. Japanese soldiers routinely detonated themselves by attacking Allied tanks while carrying antitank mines, magnetic demolition charges, hand grenades and other explosive devices.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}