Bombs Bombs Blast bomb is a term used in Northern Ireland for a type of improvised explosive device. More specifically, these devices are usually a form of homemade grenade, which is thrown at a target. These devices have been used in a number of public order situations, and in attacks on the PSNI and British Army. Ordinary fireworks are sometimes used in a similar fashion to blast bombs. Such devices which are packed with nails are referred to as nail bombs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blast bomb"
Named for a mythical medieval French sword, the BLU-107 Durandal is a bomb developed by the French company Matra (now MBDA France, a branch of EADS), specialized in the destruction of airport and airfield runways. ...more on Wikipedia about "BLU-107 Durandal"
A bomb is an explosive device which, although not containing more energy than ordinary fuel (except in the case of a nuclear weapon), generates and releases its energy very rapidly, as a violent, destructive shock wave. It is usually some kind of container filled with explosive material, designed to cause random destruction when set off. The word comes from the Greek βόμβος (bombos), an onomatopoetic term with approximately the same meaning as "boom" in English. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bomb"
Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous devices are rendered safe. "Bomb disposal" is an all encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated, fields of military (Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD), public safety (Public Safety Bomb Disposal, PSBT) and civilian (Unexploded Ordnance, UXO) operations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bomb disposal"
A car bomb is an improvised explosive device that is placed in a car or other vehicle and then exploded. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupant(s) of the vehicle or people near the blast site or to cause damage to buildings or other property. Car bombs act as their own delivery mechanisms and can carry a relatively large amount of explosive without attracting suspicion. Automobiles or trucks are most commonly used, although motorcycles and even bicycles have also been used to carry bombs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Car bomb"
A cherry bomb is a dangerous firework. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cherry bomb"
A detonator is a device used to trigger bombs, shaped charges and other forms of explosive material and explosive devices. Detonators can be found in either electrical or non-electrical form. There are three categories of electrical detonators namely; instantaneous electrical detonators (IED), short period delay detonators (SPD) and long period delay detonators (LPD). SPDs are measured in milliseconds and LPDs are measured in seconds. Detonators can be chemical, mechanical, or electrical with the most common being mechanical and electrical. Explosive Ordnance Devices or EOD ( hand grenades, naval mines etc) mostly make use of mechanical detonators whilst the commercial use of explosives uses electrical detonators. Another form of detonator used in the commercial sector is that of the capped fuse which is a length of safety fuse to which an ordinary detonator has been crimped. Many detonators' primary (sensitive to heat, shock and friction) explosive is a material called ASA compound. This compound is formed from lead azide, lead styphnate and aluminium and is pressed into place above the base charge usually TNT or tetryl in military detonators and PETN in commercial detonators. Other materials such as DDNP ( diazo dinitro phenol) are also used as the primary charge to reduce the amount of lead emitted into the atmosphere by mining and quarrying operations. Old detonators used mercury fulminate as the primary, and it was often mixed with potassium chlorate to yield better performance. Detonators vary in size and strength. The only detonators used for military applications are #6 and #8 blasting caps. There are so many different types of blasting caps with different primaries and sizes that it is nearly impossible to put a number to a detonator any more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Detonator"
The term dirty bomb is most often used to refer to a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), a radiological weapon which combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. Though an RDD is designed to disperse radioactive material over a large area, the conventional explosive would likely have more immediate lethal effect than the radioactive material. At levels created from most probable sources, not enough radiation would be present to cause severe illness or death. A test explosion and subsequent calculations done by the Department of Energy found that assuming nothing is done to clean up the affected area and everyone stays in the affected area for 1 year, the radiation exposure would be "fairly high". However, recent analysis of the Chernoblyl fallout seems to show that many people are hardly affected over 5 years and more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dirty bomb"
An explosive belt (also called suicide belt, suicide vest or shaheed belt) is a vest packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by suicide bombers. Explosive belts are usually packed with nails, screws, bolts, and other objects that serve as shrapnel to maximize the number of casualties in the explosion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Explosive belt"
In 1912, during the Balkan War, Bulgarian Air Force pilot Christo Toprakchiev suggested the use of airplanes to drop "bombs" (as grenades were called in Bulgarian army at this time) on Turkish positions. Captain Simeon Petrov developed the idea and created several prototypes by adapting different types of grenades and increasing their payload. On 16 October 1912 the observer Prodan Toprakchiev dropped 2 of those bombs at the Turkish railway station of Karaagac (near the besieged Edirne) from an Albatros F.II airplane piloted by Radul Milkov. This was the first use of an airplane as a bomber. ...more on Wikipedia about "First air-dropped bomb"
(Improvised explosive device) :IED is also an abbreviation for the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary by Julius Pokorny. ...more on Wikipedia about "Improvised explosive device"
Aerial bombs in use by the Japanese Navy in World War II: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of bombs used by the Imperial Japanese Navy"
M-80s are a class of large firecrackers. True M-80s were originally developed in the early 20th century by the U.S. military to simulate gunfire, but were soon being manufactured and sold to the public as fireworks. Traditionally, M-80s were made from a small red cardboard tube approximately 1.5 inches long and 9/16 inches in diameter, with a Visco fuse coming out of the side. They held approximately 2.5-3 grams of pyrotechnic flashpowder. * M-80's ...more on Wikipedia about "M-80 (explosive)"
MacDonald House bombing occurred on 10 March, 1965, at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building (known as MacDonald House) along Orchard Road, Singapore. The time bomb was planted by Indonesian saboteurs, during the konfrontasi period. It killed 3 people and injured at least 33. ...more on Wikipedia about "MacDonald House bombing" It must be http://www.shortopedia.com.
A mailbomb (or mail bomb), also called parcel bomb or letter bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed to explode when opened, injuring or killing the recipient, usually someone the sender has a personal grudge against, or more indiscriminately as part of a terrorist campaign. Some countries have agencies the job of which is in part the interdiction of mailbombs and the investigation of mailbombings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mailbomb"
A nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device packed with nails to increase its destructive power. The nails act as shrapnel, leading almost certainly to greater loss of life and injury in inhabited areas than the explosives alone would. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nail bomb"
A petard was a medieval term for a small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. ...more on Wikipedia about "Petard"
A pipe bomb is a simple type of improvised explosive device favored by criminals, a piece of pipe filled with an explosive material. The pressure of the burning explosive material ruptures the pipe resulting in a sudden, explosive release. The rupturing pipe creates fragmentation, which can lead to injury. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pipe bomb"
A proximity fuze (also called a VT fuze, for "variable time") is a fuze that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it. Developed first for use against airborne missiles, it was later used against ground targets. By sending out radio waves that are reflected by the target and comparing the frequency of the outgoing waves to the incoming waves, a radio proximity fuze uses the Doppler effect to determine its proximity to a target missile. When the incoming waves sharply decrease in frequency, the target is at the closest proximity that can be determined using this method. (The sharp decrease in frequency means that the projectile has just passed the target. Think of the sound a train whistle makes as the train approaches you. The long blast of the whistle changes as it just passes your location.) For use against land targets, the proximity fuze was tuned to detonate the explosive at the optimum height above the ground. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proximity fuze"
A suitcase bomb is a bomb which uses a suitcase as its delivery method. While conventional bombs can be hidden in any type of container, suitcase bombs have been threats primarily in two different contexts: conventional bombs in suitcases on airplanes (where there are many suitcases, and where even a small bomb will cause a crash), and suitcases with small nuclear weapons inside (sometimes called suitcase nukes). ...more on Wikipedia about "Suitcase bomb"
A time bomb is usually an improvised explosive device comprising a battery, detonator, an explosive charge, and a timer, which substitutes for a fuse or trigger. Depending upon the design, the bomb can be set to detonate any time between a few minutes and several days after it has been secreted within the target area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Time bomb"
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Unexploded ordnance (or UXOs) are explosive weapons ( bombs, shells, grenades, etc.) that did not explode when they were employed, and still pose a risk of detonation, decades after the battles in which they were used. ...more on Wikipedia about "Unexploded ordnance"
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