The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb produced in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

A bomb is a device that generates and releases its energy very rapidly. The explosion creates a violent, very destructive shock wave. For the music album by Converter see Shock Front For the 1977 horror film see Shock Waves A shock wave (also called Bombs cause destruction and injury to objects and living things within the blast radius by the crushing action of the shockwave (pressure) and by mechanical impact of fragments, including shards of the bomb casing (often called "shrapnel") or objects from the surrounding area propelled by the blast. Shrapnel is the term originally applied to an anti-personnel artillery shell which carried a large number of individual bullets to the target and then ejected them forwards relying Bombs have been used for centuries in both conventional and unconventional warfare. Unconventional warfare (abbreviated UW) is the opposite of Conventional warfare. Most bombs do not contain more energy than ordinary fuel, except in the case of a nuclear weapon. In Physics and other Sciences energy (from the Greek grc ἐνέργεια - Energeia, "activity operation" from grc ἐνεργός Fuel is any material that is burned or altered in order to obtain energy A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.

The word comes from the Greek word βόμβος (bombos), an onomatopoetic term with approximately the same meaning as "boom" in English. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα is a Word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

Bombs are first and foremost weapons; the term "bomb" is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes, such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as bombs. A civilian under International humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her Country 's Armed forces. In the fields of Architecture and Civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the Building or assembling of Infrastructure Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body Many military explosive devices are not called "bombs". The military mostly calls airdropped, unpowered explosive weapons "bombs," and such bombs are normally used by air forces and naval aviation. An air force, also known in some countries as an air army or historically an army air corps, is in the broadest sense the national military or armed service Naval Aviation is the application of manned military air power by navies Other military explosive devices are called grenades, shells, depth charges (used in water), warheads when in missiles, or land mines. A shell is a payload-carrying Projectile, which as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling though modern usage includes large solid projectiles Depth Charge is a character in the Beast Wars: Transformers universe Typically a warhead is the Explosive material and Detonator that is delivered by a Missile, Rocket, or Torpedo. A missile (see also pronunciation differences) is a self-propelled explosive Projectile used as a weapon towards a target A land mine is an Explosive device designed to be placed on or in the ground to explode when triggered by an operator or the Proximity of a vehicle person

Experts commonly distinguish between civilian and military bombs. The latter are almost always mass-produced weapons, developed and constructed to a standard design out of standard components and intended to be deployed in a standard way each time. By contrast, civilian bombs are usually custom-made, developed to any number of designs, use a wide range of explosives of varying levels of power and chemical stability, and are used in many different ways. For this reason, they are generally referred to as improvised explosive devices (IEDs). An improvised explosive device ( IED) is a Bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional Military action

Types

Device originally thought to be a pipe bomb, found to be a time bomb. A pipe bomb is an Improvised explosive device, a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an Explosive material. A time bomb (or timebomb time-bomb) is an Improvised explosive device with a Timer so that it can be set to Detonate any time From a United States government publication.

Thermobaric weapons are a type of conventional explosive that draws its oxidizer from oxygen in the air. Thermobaric weapons distinguish themselves from conventional Explosive weapons by using atmospheric Oxygen, instead of carrying an Oxidizer in their An oxidizing agent or oxidising agent (also called an oxidant, oxidizer or oxidiser) can be defined as either a Chemical compound

The most powerful kind of bomb in existence is the hydrogen bomb, a nuclear weapon with destructive power measured in megatons of TNT (Mt). The Teller–Ulam design is a Nuclear weapon design which is used in Megaton -range Thermonuclear weapons and is more colloquially referred to as "the A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Units of mass There are three similar units of Mass called the ton: Long ton (simply ton in countries such as the United The most powerful bombs ever used in combat were the two bombs dropped by the United States to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Japanese city of ( is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan 's ( is the Capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. The most powerful non-nuclear bombs are the United States Air Force's MOAB (officially Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or more commonly known as the "Mother Of All Bombs") and the Russian "Father of All Bombs". Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Aviation Thermobaric Bomb with Increased Power (Авиационная вакуумная бомба повышенной мощности (АВБПМ nicknamed " Father ^[1]

Bombs can also be classified according to the way they are set off and radius of effect. Remote Authentication Dial In User Service ( RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized access authorization and accounting management for people or computers

Delivery

A Japanese bomb explodes on the flight deck of USS Enterprise, 24 August 1942, during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, causing minor damage. Initial operations Enterprise was launched on 3 October 1936 at Newport News Shipbuilding, sponsored by Lulie Swanson wife of Secretary of the The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons (also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and in Japanese sources as the, took place on August 24, 1942

The first air-dropped bombs were used by the Austrians in the 1849 siege of Venice. The first air-dropped bomb was dropped when Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of the Italian Army dropped four grenades from his Two hundred unmanned balloons carried small bombs, few bombs actually hit Venice. ^[2]

The first bombing from a fixed wing aircraft was in 1911 by the Italians against Arabs in what is now Libya. The bombs were dropped by hand. ^[3] Today large bombers usually have an internal bomb bay while fighter bombers usually carry bombs externally on pylons or bomb racks, or on multiple ejection racks which enable mounting several bombs on a single pylon. The older name of the Indian city of Mumbai, is correctly spelled " Bombay " Modern bombs, precision-guided munitions, may be guided after they leave an aircraft by remote control, or by autonomous guidance. When bombs such as nuclear weapons are mounted on a powered platform, they are called guided missiles. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Guided Missile is a London based Independent record label set up by Paul Kearney in 1994.

Some bombs are equipped with a parachute, such as the World War II "parafrag", which was an 11 kg fragmentation bomb, the Vietnam-era daisy cutters, and the bomblets of some modern cluster bombs. A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Vietnam (ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm Việt Nam) officially The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system known under programme " Commando Vault " and nicknamed " daisy cutter " in Vietnam Cluster munitions or cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched munitions that eject a number of smaller submunitions a cluster of bomblets Parachutes slow the bomb's descent, giving the dropping aircraft time to get to a safe distance from the explosion. This is especially important with airburst nuclear weapons, and in situations where the aircraft releases a bomb at low altitude.

A hand grenade is delivered by being thrown. Grenades can also be projected by other means using a grenade launcher, such as being launched from the muzzle of a rifle using the M203 or the GP-30 or by attaching a rocket to the explosive grenade as in a rocket propelled grenade (RPG). A grenade launcher is a Weapon that launches a Grenade with more accuracy higher velocity and to greater distances than a soldier could throw it by hand A rifle is a Firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling" cut into the barrel walls For the locomotive model see EMD GP30 The GP-30 Obuvka ('Shoe' GP-25 Kostyor ('Bonfire' and BG-15 Mukha ('Fly' are A rocket or rocket vehicle is a Missile, Aircraft or other Vehicle which obtains Thrust by the reaction of the RPG or rocket-propelled grenade, is a loose term describing hand-held shoulder-launched Anti-tank weapons capable of firing an unguided

A bomb may also be positioned in advance and concealed.

A bomb destroying a rail track just before a train arrives causes a train to derail. A train is a connected series of vehicles that move along a track ( Permanent way) to transport freight or passengers from one place to another A derailment is an accident on a railway in which a Train leaves the rails which can result in damage injury and death Apart from the damage to vehicles and people, a bomb exploding in a transport network often also damages, and is sometimes mainly intended to damage that network. Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another This applies for railways, bridges, runways, and ports, and to a lesser extent, depending on circumstances, to roads. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. A bridge is a Structure built to span a Gorge, Valley, Road, railroad track, River, Body of water A runway ( RWY) is a strip of land on an Airport, on which Aircraft can take off and land. ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo

In the case of suicide bombing the bomb is often carried by the attacker on his or her body, or in a vehicle driven to the target. This article is about suicide attacks for political and/or military reasons

The Blue Peacock nuclear mines, which were also termed "bombs", were planned to be positioned during wartime and be constructed such that, if they were disturbed, they would explode within ten seconds. Blue Peacock —dubbed the "chicken-powered nuclear bomb"—was the Codename of a British Tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s with the

The explosion of a bomb may be triggered by a detonator or a fuse. For the Ratt album see Detonator (album A detonator is a device used to trigger an Explosive device. In an Explosive, Pyrotechnic device or military Munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function Detonators are triggered by clocks, remote controls like cell phones or some kind of sensor, such as pressure (altitude), radar, vibration or contact. Circadian Locomotor Output Cycles Kaput, or Clock is a gene which encodes proteins regulating Circadian rhythm. A remote control is an electronic device used for the remote operation of a Machine. Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic waves to identify the range altitude direction or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as Aircraft, ships Detonators vary in ways they work, they can be electrical, fire fuze or blast initiated detonators and others. .

References

External links

• FAS.org Bombs for Beginners
• MakeItLouder.com How a bomb functions and rating their power