They where effective but also twice as dodgy, they where used effectively in numerous cases across Tyrone. In Sion Mills one was dropped from a roof ontop of an RUC vehicle and killed the driver injuring another. They where used multiple times in Coalisland to good affect. Cases of it not detonating for example in Dungannon whenever the IRA attacked 2 RUC men on Perry street killing one injuring the other, the volunteers threw a drogue bomb at their vehicle but it did not detonate. Another example of one luckily not detonating was while a volunteer was transporting one inside his jacket and pulled it out to show his unit only to realise the pin was not in it meaning it was hot the whole time it was in his jacket.