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A concrete bomb is an aerial bomb containing dense, inert material (typically concrete) instead of explosive. The target is destroyed using the kinetic energy of the falling bomb, making it a kinetic energy weapon .
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 a "bomb". The military use of the term "bomb", or more specifically aerial bomb action, typically refers to airdropped, unpowered explosive weapons most ...
The BLU-109 bomb is intended to penetrate concrete shelters and other hardened structures before exploding. It entered service in 1985. It entered service in 1985. Israeli F-15I fighter jets are believed to have used BLU-109s in the strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on 27 September 2024.
Subsidence craters remaining after underground nuclear (test) explosions at the north end of the Yucca Flat, Nevada test site. A nuclear bunker buster, [1] also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster.
A Luftwaffe 1 kg incendiary bomb dated 1936 Royal Air Force "Grand Slam" earthquake bomb used towards the end of World War II. Aerial bombing saw widespread use during World War Two. A precursor was the 1937 bombing of Guernica by the Nazi German Luftwaffe and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria at the behest of Francisco Franco. [10]
The number in the bombs designation corresponded to the approximate weight of the bomb. The SBe series was an effort to balance low cost, good fragmentation, and effective explosives. The SBe series achieved its fragmentation by embedding scrap metal in a layer of concrete instead of having a thick steel casing like the SD series.
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The BETAB-500 (Russian: БетАБ-500) or the BETAB-500 Concrete-Piercing Bomb [1] is a Soviet and Russian 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) bomb designed to penetrate and destroy reinforced concrete structures and to damage runways. During the Syrian civil war, the Russian military has used it repeatedly.