A delay-action bomb is an aerial bomb designed to explode some time after impact, with the bomb's fuzes set to delay the explosion for times ranging from...
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latter; as the bomb detonates when the time runs out). Types of time bombs include: Delay-action bomb (bombs dropped by aircraft with a delay to increase...
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hardpoints or in bomb bays Delay-action bomb – explodes some time after impact, as opposed to before or on impact Dummy bomb – harmless bomb that has been...
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itself (such as a glide bomb), instant-detonation bombs, or delay-action bombs. As with other types of explosive weapons, aerial bombs aim to kill and injure...
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unexploded bombs caused far more chaos and disruption than bombs that exploded immediately. This caused them to increase their usage of delayed-action bombs in...
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The Blitz (redirect from Bombing of London)
Second World War, would net a positive result. However, the use of delayed-action bombs, while initially very effective, gradually had less impact, partly...
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Unexploded ordnance (redirect from Unexploded bomb)
underground. The type of delayed-action fuze in the Göttingen bomb was commonly used: a glass vial containing acetone was smashed after the bomb was released; the...
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United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000...
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ZUS-40s were designed to fit underneath most Luftwaffe bomb fuzes. When a delayed-action bomb containing a ZUS-40 was dropped on a target, the impact...
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Decontamination foam Deep ecology Deforestation Degrees Degradation Delay-action bomb Delayed nuclear radiation Denitrification Dental amalgam controversy Denudation...
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with 550 pounds (250 kg) of tritonal. It has a mechanical-electrical delayed-action FMU-143 tail-fuze. The BLU-109 entered service in 1985. It is also used...
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A box-office bomb is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined...
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Operation Opera (redirect from 1981 Israeli bombing)
eight F-16As, each with two unguided Mark-84 2,000-pound (910 kg) delay-action bombs. A flight of six F-15As was assigned to the operation to provide fighter...
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fighter airplanes, extreme hazards on a low-level attack of exploding delayed action bombs from the previous element, of oil fires and explosions and dense...
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Kamikaze (redirect from Kamikaze bombing)
intensive fighter sweeps over Japanese airfields, and bombing Japanese runways, using delayed-action bombs making repairs more difficult. Late in 1944, the...
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capable of producing a firestorm. The high explosives were often delay-action bombs intended to kill or intimidate those fighting the fires caused by...
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Nuclear weapon (redirect from Atomic bomb)
fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large...
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Bunker buster (redirect from Bunker buster bomb)
Reports regarding Bunker Busters Video against usage (produced by Union of Concerned Scientists) Video of bunker buster bomb in action Tunnel buster bomb...
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GBU-57A/B MOP (category Guided bombs of the United States)
project. It was later announced that funding delays and enhancements to the planned test schedule meant the bomb would not be deployable until December 2010...
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To Leave or Die in Long Island (category Bomb the Music Industry! albums)
"Showerbeers" is from the movie Can't Hardly Wait. "Bomb the Music Industry! (and Action Action) (and Refused) (and Born Against) Are Fucking Dead" contains...
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The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on...
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weapon release. The Mod 11 is a hardened penetration bomb with a reinforced casing and a delayed-action fuze; this allows the weapon to penetrate several...
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Gys Hofmeyr (section Orumbo bombings (1925))
considered smoke bombs, aerial darts, tear gas, phosphorus bombs, war rockets, long delay "action" bombs, tracer ammunition, man-killing shrapnel bombs, "liquid"...
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the tail unit from the warhead and it contained a delayed action base fuze for detonating the bomb and a black powder ignition charge. The spacer was...
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Swansea Blitz (section Bombing raids)
was lifted, the centre of Swansea was devastated, and fires and delayed-action bombs destroyed communications. By the time the "all clear" siren sounded...
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11-second delay, the No. 53 with a thirty-minute delay, a No. 53A with an hour's delay and a No. 37 which had a delay of 6 to 144 hours. The first bomb arrived...
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George Metesky (redirect from Loew's Theatre bombing)
The New York Times. May 7, 1953. Retrieved September 23, 2007. A delayed action bomb, described by the police as the homemade product of a "publicity-seeking...
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During an air raid, she is caught in the middle of the street with a delay-action bomb. One air raid warden tells her to run, another to lie down. She does...
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Improvised explosive device (redirect from Roadside bomb)
improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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Lenin's support of the right of secession for the Soviet republics a "delayed-action bomb". An opinion piece by Gorbachev in April 2006 stated: "The nuclear...
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