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  2. List of bombs - Wikipedia

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    Guided bomb: Improvised explosive device: Land mine: Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. 1832 Ming Dynasty: Laser guided bomb: Molotov cocktail: Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle Nail bomb: 1970 Pipe bomb: Pressure cooker bomb: the pressure of the pressure cooker places high explosive ...

  3. Pipe bomb - Wikipedia

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    Different pipe bombs' appearances, from a bomb awareness report issued by the US Department of State. The bomb is usually a short section of steel water pipe containing the explosive mixture and closed at both ends with steel or brass caps. A fuse is inserted into the pipe with a lead running out through a hole in the side or capped end of the ...

  4. Bomb - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Napalm - Wikipedia

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    Napalm became an intrinsic element of US military action during the Vietnam War as forces made increasing use of it for its tactical and psychological effects. [ 9 ] [ 25 ] Reportedly about 352,000 tonnes (388,000 short tons; 346,000 long tons) of US napalm bombs were dropped in the region between 1963 and 1973. [ 10 ]

  6. GBU-57A/B MOP - Wikipedia

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    The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bomb used by the United States Air Force. [2] The GBU-57 (Guided Bomb Unit-57) is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37.

  7. Shell (projectile) - Wikipedia

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    They were usually made of cast iron, but bronze, lead, brass and even glass shell casings were experimented with. [6] The word bomb encompassed them at the time, as heard in the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner ("the bombs bursting in air"), although today that sense of bomb is obsolete. Typically, the thickness of the metal body was about a ...

  8. Warhead - Wikipedia

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    A B61 nuclear bomb in various stages of assembly; the nuclear warhead is the bullet-shaped silver canister in the middle-left of the photograph.. A warhead is the section of a device that contains the explosive agent or toxic (biological, chemical, or nuclear) material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, torpedo, or bomb.

  9. Fragmentation (weaponry) - Wikipedia

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    Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or shattered by the detonation of the explosive filler.