User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/Citadel and Reckoning DLC announced/@comment-5362182-20130225220719/@comment-4310096-20130225224615

Explosives are explosives, I would say. Though advances in Kinetic Barriers might change the game a little. However, seeing how other explosives are still in use I'd say that a boom is a boom in this case.