A concrete bomb is an aerial bomb containing dense, inert material (typically concrete) instead of explosive. The target is destroyed using the kinetic...
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Disney bomb, also known as the Disney Swish, officially the 4500 lb Concrete Piercing/Rocket Assisted bomb was a rocket-assisted bunker buster bomb developed...
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Germany. When landing on reinforced concrete, the bombs tended to break up on impact or explode prematurely. The bombs had been designed to land in soft...
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Look up bomb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an...
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Aerial bombing of cities Area bombardment Bomber Explosive weapons Strategic bombing Tactical bombing Types of aerial bomb Cluster bomb Concrete bomb Earthquake...
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Earthquake bombs were used towards the end of World War II on massively reinforced installations, such as submarine pens with concrete walls several...
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Bunker buster (redirect from Bunker buster bomb)
(4.5 m) reinforced concrete hardening—equalling or exceeding the best current penetration specifications. The British Disney bomb (officially "4500 lb...
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bomb used by the United States Air Force (BLU is an acronym for Bomb Live Unit). As with other "bunker busters", it is intended to penetrate concrete...
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type of flechette was used for the recoilless rifle.[citation needed] Concrete bomb Kinetic bombardment Karmes 2014. Eades & Powers 1964, p. 15. Pursglove...
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BETAB-500 (category Cold War aerial bombs of the Soviet Union)
BETAB-500 Concrete-Piercing Bomb is a Soviet and Russian 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) bomb designed to penetrate and destroy reinforced concrete structures...
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concretions in their search for fossil animal and plant specimens. Some of the most unusual concretion nuclei are World War II military shells, bombs...
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GBU-28 (redirect from Deep Throat (bomb))
of solid concrete; this was demonstrated when a test bomb, bolted to a missile sled, smashed through 22 feet (6.7 m) of reinforced concrete and still...
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into hardened reinforced concrete when it hit. This, however, was not the primary intention of Barnes Wallis's design. The bomb was designed to make impact...
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concrete-breaking BrAB (also BRAB) (БрАБ) - armor-piercing PTAB (ПТАБ) - anti-tank PLAB/MPLAB/GB (ПЛАБ/МПЛАБ/ГБ) - naval anti-submarine aircraft bomb...
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anywhere between 0.4% and 25% the speed of light. Concrete bomb Kinetic energy penetrator Cobalt bomb Prompt Global Strike Railgun Boeing X-37 Brilliant...
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A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron...
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Nagasaki at the time of the bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell. There were...
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bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during the Vietnam War, it became a commonly used US heavy unguided bomb....
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T-12 Cloudmaker (redirect from T-12 bomb)
The T-12 (also known as Cloudmaker) earthquake bomb was developed by the United States from 1944 to 1948 and deployed until the withdrawal of the Convair...
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BLU-116 (category Aerial bombs of the United States)
United States Air Force bomb, designed as an enhanced bunker buster penetration weapon, designed to penetrate deep into rock or concrete and destroy hard targets...
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Musique concrète (French pronunciation: [myzik kɔ̃kʁɛt]; lit. 'concrete music') is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material...
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bomb Type 92 50 kg gas bomb Type 90 parachute flare Type 1 12 kg parachute flare Type 3 parachute flare Type 97 concrete bomb Type 94 substitute bomb...
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MPR500 (category Aerial bombs of Israel)
penetration and surface attack bomb manufactured by Israel Military Industries. It has the effectiveness and dimensions of a Mark 84 bomb and can penetrate 1 meter...
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A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive...
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Nuclear bunker buster (category Nuclear bombs)
non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would...
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Matra Durandal (category Aerial bombs of France)
explosions to displace the concrete slabs of a runway, thus making the damage to the runway far more difficult to repair. The bomb is named after a mythical...
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100-foot-wide (30 m) hole through four sublevels of concrete. The detonation velocity of this bomb was about 15,000 feet per second (10,000 mph; 4.6 km/s)...
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The GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 250-pound (110 kg) precision-guided glide bomb that is intended to allow aircraft to carry a greater number...
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FAB-500 (category Cold War aerial bombs of the Soviet Union)
is a Soviet-designed 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) general purpose air-dropped bomb with a high-explosive warhead, primarily used by the Russian Aerospace Forces...
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bomb with a non-explosive material (e.g. concrete), for a precision hit with less collateral damage; these are called concrete bombs. A typical bomb has...
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