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The Example in Urban Ops for Breaching seems to be a bit off. (page 20 of Urban Ops)

The C Blast Power Explosive used is a Shaped Charge, which the example correctly reduces it's blast power (Page 70 in the Player's Manual) for the poor marauders inside the room, but the example forgets that Explosions increase one Blast Power indoors, so the modifiers should cancel out right?

Or are explosives that are used for Breaching exempt from that rule?

I'm trying to figure out if the Example is wrong or the Breaching rules are missing a bit of info.

Except its not and I was confused even more so by reading the old edition of the Player's Manual. There are two versions on DriveThruRPG, a standalone player's manual that is outdated, and one bundled as part of the Coreset that is more recent.

The new rules for the Shaped charges have no Blast power at all to secondary targets, so there should be no mention of a reduction or a increase in the example in UO at all.

The only thing i can think of is that UO came out before the updated Player's manual, had a typo about the Reduction/Increase (which should cancel out per CQC rules) and then UO was never updated to show the new Shaped charges rules lol

Hello!

Checking this, and you are right, the example on page 20 in Urban Operations appears to be a little off. The rule of reducing the blast power of a shaped charge has been removed in the core game, instead removing the general explosive effect altogether in the same hex. However, as per the breaching rules i UO, the explosive effect affects the hex / sector on the other side of the breach. I think the logical resolution here would be to let a shaped charge have its full blast power in the target tex / sector (i.e. beyond the breach) and that it's increased one step due to the confined space. So, in the example, the effective blast power in the marauders' room should have been B, not D. We will clarify and revise this in an update the UO PDF as well as in any reprint.