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	Gravity bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gravity bomb is an aircraft-delivered bomb that does not contain a guidance system and hence follows a ballistic trajectory.
		Dumb bomb was used for a time, but many in military circles felt it sounded too trite, and eventually 'gravity bomb' gained currency.
		Special types of gravity bombs include retarded gravity bombs, which use a mechanical method of creating increased drag, such as a parachute, ballute or drag-inducing petals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gravity_bomb (182 words)

	[1.0] Dumb Bombs (1): Unitary Bombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		An inertial fuze, used on retarded bombs, that is armed by the jerk caused by the deployment of brake fins or a ballute.
		The bombs breached the Moehne and Eder dams.
		Although in their standard configuration these bombs are fitted with a "slick" tail with four fins, a popout-fin tail is often fitted to the 340 kilogram M-117, in which form it is referred to as the "Retarder", and the 225 kilogram Mark 82, making it a "Snakeye".
	www.vectorsite.net /twbomb1.html (5073 words)

	bomb - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		A-bomb, atom bomb, atomic bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb - a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
		bomblet, cluster bomblet - one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb
		cluster bomb - bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area; "cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely"
	www.onpedia.com /dictionary/bomb (937 words)

	this is my library project part 1
		In most wars of the past, bombs were just dropped from aircraft in large numbers, in a ‘spray and pray’ fashion, in hopes that one or more of the groups of explosives would destroy the intended target.
		By tilting the fins in a specific direction, there is an increase in drag on the side of the bomb that the fin(s) turn towards, which in turn causes the bomb to move in the direction of the side with increased drag.
		One of the reasons why smart bombs were developed was because of the civilian and other neutral casualties that occured as a result of massive bombings; a reoccurance of these casualties is never a way to win the war with people’s confidence.
	www.pitt.edu /~mar28/engEvent.html (2723 words)

	Aerospace Industry Discussion
		The whole purpose of a bomb is the warhead, whithout it a bomb is usesless.
		Dumb bombs means the planse have to fly low, adn near to the target.
		Dumb bombs mean fly low, putting the plane at still a greater risk.
	www.aeroworldnet.com /aid/messages/25/379.html?TuesdayJune819990917pm (1162 words)

	Could Smart Bombs Go Dumb?
		Smart bombs might be self-propelled, in the form of cruise missiles or ballistic missiles.
		And the one problem with smart bombs, as employed in recent years, is that a near-miss is as good as a mile -- in fact, a near-miss by a live warhead can cause catastrophic collateral damage.
		Every smart bomb uses software and sensors to be told about its target, and then to find that target precisely during the final part of its flight.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,Buff_112403,00.html (2238 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Smart Bombs Work"
		A "dumb bomb" is a bomb with only these elements, dropped from an airplane (such as the B-2 bomber).
		Smart bombs generally have proximity fuzes, which set off the explosive just before the bomb reaches the target, or impact fuzes, which set off the explosive when the bomb actually hits something.
		For the bomb to see its target, a separate human operator, either on the ground or in the air, has to "paint" the designated target with a high-intensity laser beam.
	science.howstuffworks.com /smart-bomb.htm (1495 words)

	GBU-28/B "Bunker Buster" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Comparing the bomb's position to that of the laser spot (and target), a microprocessor adjusts the weapon's descent by moving the tiny wings on the bomb's nose.
		By delaying the explosion of the bomb until it has passed through the walls of a cave or bunker, its destructive power is concentrated on the contents of the target--usually personnel or equipment inside the structure.
		The circular error probability of a typical Vietnam-era dumb bomb was 150 feet; half the time it was dropped, the bomb hit within a 300 foot-wide circle.
	www.clw.org /archive/milspend/gbu28.html (1427 words)

	Mark 82 bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mark 82 (Mk 82) is an unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb (dumb bomb), part of the U.S. Mark 80 series.
		With a nominal weight of 500 lb (227 kg), it is the smallest of those bombs in current service, and one of the most common air-dropped weapons in the world.
		The Mk 82 is the warhead for the GBU-12 and GBU-22 laser-guided bombs and for the GBU-38 JDAM.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_82_bomb (178 words)

	Gulf War II Bombing Reality Check
		The 30% dumb bomb assumption turned out to be a more accurate estimate than expected, and turned out to be an underestimate rather than an overestimate as initially suspected (actual was 31.7%...
		An estimate of a continually-slowing bombing rate was used to extrapolate munitions-expended for an additional 6 days, and the 22,000 precision-munition number was the result (on that last day, the Pentagon reported that 200 precision munitions had been expended in the last 24 hours).
		What that indicates is that the larger bombs expended were more frequently smart, and the dumb bombs used tended to be smaller.
	www.numberboy.org /gulfwar2bombspost/1bombpost1.0dw.html (800 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Birth of a Bomb (8/15/03)
		About 90 percent of the bombs dropped during the war were 1,000- and 2,000-pound unguided munitions, which, on average, fell only within 200 feet of their intended targets.
		The guidance kits could be attached to hundreds of thousands of dumb bombs the military had been stockpiling since the 1950s.
		If the companies would agree to build as many bombs as the military wanted for no more than $40,000 apiece with a 20-year warranty, they would not have to reveal their costs, could choose their own suppliers, and the winner would be the sole JDAM supplier in perpetuity.
	www.govexec.com /features/0803/0803s1.htm (4514 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Bombs, Rockets & Missiles
		A bomb is a purely ballistic weapon, meaning that the only force that acts upon it after it is released from an aircraft is gravity.
		A number of different types of dumb bombs have been developed from World War I until today, and they are typically classified by their weight.
		In summary, what separates a bomb from a rocket from a missile is whether or not the weapon has a propulsion system of some kind or some form of guidance allowing it to steer towards a particular target.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/weapons/q0211.shtml (1987 words)

	Military Factory - 1000 lb Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		An unguided 1000lb general-purpose bomb is sometimes referred to as a 'dumb' bomb and is fitted with either a ballistic or a retard tail.
		In impact mode, the bomb is detonated as it reaches the target, which optimises the weapon's blast effects against unprotected installations.
		The 1000lb general-purpose bomb is also used as the warhead for the UK Paveway II laser guided bomb.
	www.militaryfactory.com /munitions/popup.asp?munitions_id=82 (249 words)

	Science in War
		Smart bombs increase the frequency with which targets are hit, which in turn reduces the number of sorties that need to be flown.
		In one case, bombs were fired at an enemy target in the dark, just a few hundred metres away from friendly troops, destroying the enemy position.
		The bombs are fitted with a GPS receiver, a computer, an inertial guidance and control system, tail fins and a harness to strap it to the under wing of an aircraft, such as the US Navy's F/A-18 Hornet.
	www.channel4.com /science/microsites/S/science/war/smartbombs.html (1574 words)

	SAOIRSE -- MacCool February 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nightly, courtesy of CNN we watched missiles confidently sail into their targets as if by magic quickly dubbed “smart bombs” by the world media, a new era of warfare had emerged.
		Within a few days of the beginning of the war, it emerged how good and useful their “smart bombs” were.
		On another occasion, under similar conditions, it may fall short of its target, equally the dumb bomb may actually strike its target but fail to explode — this dumb bomb has existed for approximately 18 months now and of course I have decided to investigate the phenomenon more closely.
	homepage.eircom.net /~eirenua/feb97/maccool.htm (420 words)

	JDAM Matures Part 1
		An inertially guided bomb presented the prospect of a robust, digitally programmable, highly reproducable weapon which was jam proof and wholly oblivious to ambient weather conditions.
		The principal errors in bomb delivery are then dominated by the accuracy of the synthetic aperture radar or thermal imager/laser rangefinder used to produce target coordinates, and the guidance loop error in the bomb.
		Laser guided bombs such as the baseline GBU-10/12 and GBU-22/24 are unusable under conditions where the laser illumination is impaired, conditions which are of no consequence to a JDAM tracking L-band microwave emissions from low orbiting satellites.
	www.ausairpower.net /TE-JDAMPt1.html (3892 words)

	The Royal Air Force - Equipment
		The 1000lb general-purpose bomb is also used as the warhead for the UK Paveway II laser guided bomb, and the new Enhanced Paveway II satellite guided weapon.
		The Paveway II LGB is essentially a 1000lb general purpose bomb with a seeker head fitted to the nose and with movable guide fins fitted to the tail.
		A laser is used to designate the required target and the bomb's guidance package then steers the weapon to the source of the reflected laser energy.
	www.raf.mod.uk /equipment/a_sshort.html (1445 words)

	T12 Demolition Bomb - Dumb Bombs
		Twice the size of the 22,000-pound M110, this bomb was designed to create an earthquake effect by penetrating deep into the earth before exploding and thus causing the ground to heave up under the target.
		The bomb case is comprised of six separate sections welded together.
		The M-121, sometimes called the "Earthquake" bomb, was more often referred to as the "Grand Slam" bomb, a totally misleading nickname.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/t12.htm (221 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Who's afraid of a dirty bomb?
		But first, we are not discussing nuclear fission or thermonuclear fusion devices (aka atomic and hydrogen bombs) which release vast amounts of energy from reactions in atomic nuclei – these are indeed weapons of mass destruction.
		For example, building and handling such dirty radioactive bombs is a risky venture for the wannabe terrorists who might get fried by radiation before they deliver their payload.
		In a telephone interview, James Muckerheide, president of Radiation, Science and Health, Inc., and Massachusetts state nuclear engineer compares the dirty radioactive bomb concept with the results of the very wide dispersal of a huge amount of radioactivity from the disastrous accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power reactor in the former Soviet Union.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25839 (824 words)

	MK-77 - Dumb Bombs
		A fire bomb is a thin skinned container of fuel gel designed for use against dug-in troops, supply installations, wooden structures, and land convoys.
		The MK77 familiy is an evolution of the incendiary bombs M-47 and M-74, used during the conflict in Korea and the war in Vietnam.
		The denial by the US DOD was issued on the technical basis that the incendiaries used consisted primarily of kerosene-based jet fuel (which has a smaller concentration of benzene), rather than the traditional mixture of gasoline and benzene used for napalm, and that these therefore did not qualify as napalm.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/mk77.htm (1366 words)

	The Rockwell B-1
		The last of the hundred was delivered by the end of the decade, with five bomb wings operating the type.
		The smaller Mark 82 225 kilogram (500 pound) bombs, and the Mark 62 mines based on the Mark 82, are carried in what amounts to a "clip", known as a "Conventional Bomb Module (CBM)".
		Another problem that showed up in the Afghanistan and Iraq operations was that B-1 aircrews had no way of directly confirming a target themselves before weapons release, requiring the crew to call in a fighter to check the target, a process that was inefficient and still prone to deadly errors.
	www.vectorsite.net /avb1.html (5015 words)

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		But first, we are not referring to nuclear FISSION or thermonuclear FUSION devices (aka atomic and hydrogen bombs) which release vast amounts of energy from reactions in atomic nuclei; these are indeed weapons of mass destruction.
		The dirty radioactive bomb idea is to set off high explosives wrapped with highly radioactive stuff on the outside, like a vest, so that the explosion disperses the radioactivity.
		For example, building and handling such dirty radioactive bombs is a risky venture for the wannabee terrorists who might get fried by radiation before they delivered their payload.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0102/medicine.men122801.asp (972 words)

	Wired 7.07: Must Read
		At $50,000 above and beyond a typical dumb bomb, the standard laser-guided delivery systems used in the Balkans conflict depend on line-of-sight, following a beam aimed from an aircraft to a target.
		But if the beam is obscured by clouds or fog, the bomb can go astray.
		The mission computer, powered by a Motorola 68040 processor, steers the smart bomb based on constantly updated coordinates from a GPS receiver.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/7.07/mustread.html?pg=6 (363 words)

	Work on getting your humanity back
		attachment, plus a dumb bomb to which the attachment is attached.
		Today's dumb bombs are as dumb as the ones used in 1944 or Vietnam.
		Dumb bombs are very ineffective, smart bombs are more effective.
	www.weddingmanual.co.uk /showthread/t-4373.html (6079 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| US raid hits wrong Iraqi target
		The bomb demolished a house in Aaytha, killing 14 people, according to local officials.
		The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says the bombing incident is an embarrassing admission by US forces, who have been accused of killing many civilians during recent military operations in Iraq, particularly in the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in November.
		The US military said an F-16 jet dropped a 250kg precision-guided bomb during a search for a suspected insurgent leader early on Saturday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4158463.stm (374 words)

	British set to drop bomb with no blast - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
		The Tornadoes are already using sophisticated weaponry such as the latest high-explosive bunker-busting bomb, the air-launched cruise missile Storm Shadow, which cost more than $US1million ($1.6million) each and can pierce several feet of concrete.
		The concrete bombs are painted blue, which identifies them as non-explosive if they are discovered still intact after the war.
		The Tornadoes are offering close air support to ground forces as they advance on Baghdad and are ready to play a role if urban conflict develops.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/06/1049567567365.html (342 words)

	Smart bombs boost arms makers - Other - MSNBC.com
		The business of turning dumb bombs into smart bombs may be smart business
		The bomb’s high-tech tailfins are called joint direct attack munitions, or JDAMs in military-speak.
		Satellite-directed global positioning technology enable JDAM-equipped bombs to hit targets up to 15 miles away, right on the nose.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3072914 (400 words)

	Metroblogging Los Angeles: <del>Smart</del> Dumb Bomb dropped on 210
		A dummy bomb fell off the back of a truck driving on the 210 and snarled traffic for hours yesterday.
		The bomb was an Mk84 practice bomb and was removed from the freeway about 6 hours after it was reported.
		LAPD bomb squad and the DoD were involved and together determined it was not a real weapon.
	blogging.la /archives/2006/02/smart_dumb_bomb_dropped_on_210.phtml (256 words)

	eXile - Issue #162 - War Nerd - MOAB: the Monster Truck of American Ordnance - By Gary Brecher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It's embarrassing, the hi-tech US military scrambling to whip up the kind of big, dumb bomb the Chechens and IRA have been making for years in somebody's farm shed out of two tons of fertilizer and a Radio Shack garage-door opener wired to a detonator.
		Everybody knows about the neutron bomb, the one that "kills people and leaves buildings," although it's not really that simple -- but you have to remember we had hundreds of nuke models that were supposed to be used in ordinary little wars, not an all-out ICBM exchange between us and the Russians.
		That's when the ordnance designers started going ultra-low-tech, copying the truck bombs crazy losers were setting off in places like Sri Lanka and Belfast.
	exile.ru /162/162052003.html (1513 words)

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