List of bombs
This is a list of the types of bombs.
Type | Information | Date created | Inventor | place of origin |
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Barrel bomb | Improvised aerial bomb | 1948 | Israel | |
Blockbuster bomb | "High capacity" bomb for maximum blast effect, only used during World War II | April 1941 | United Kingdom | |
Bouncing bomb | Skips across water; designed to attack German dams in World War II | April 1942 | Barnes Wallis | United Kingdom |
Bunker buster | The first type were Röchling shell | 1942 | August Coenders | Germany |
C4 | 1956 | |||
Car bomb | A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated. | |||
Cluster bomb | Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb | Germany | ||
General-purpose bomb | ||||
Glide bomb | ||||
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 power | |||
Smoke bomb | 1848 | United Kingdom | ||
Stink bomb | Stink bombs range in effectiveness from simple pranks to military grade or riot control chemical agents. | 1943 | ||
Suicide vest or suicide bomber | China | |||
Suitcase bomb | Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. | 1950s | ||
Thermometric bomb | ||||
Time bomb | ||||
Trinitrotoluene | Commonly known as TNT | 1863 | Julius Wilbrand | Germany |
Unguided bomb | ||||
MOAB | Massive Ordnance Air Burst. Colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs. | United States | ||
FOAB | Father of All Bombs | 2007 | Russia | |
Electromagnetic bomb | 1962 | |||
Napalm bomb | ||||
Dirty bomb | scatters radioactive material | |||
Nuclear bomb | 1945 | United States | ||
Tsar Bomba | October 1961 | Soviet Union | ||
Cobalt bomb | A nuclear bomb designed to spread as much radiation around as possible | |||
Hydrogen bomb | second-generation nuclear weapon design using non-fissile depleted uranium to create a nuclear fusion reaction | 1952 | Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam | United States |
Neutron bomb | A nuclear weapon designed to destroy with lethal radiation while not damaging structures. | |||
BLU-82 | Used for creating clearings in forested areas |
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