List of bombs by country of origin

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This is a list, which lists all bombs separated by country of origin that have an article in the German-language Wikipedia. It is separated from the category: Bombs in that articles on the technology and methods of using bombs (examples: fragmentation bombs and area bombing ) cannot be classified here. It serves as a link target from the template: Infobox Bombs , to provide an overview of these weapon types, as it contains both conventional and nuclear bombs. Unless the entries are specifically separated, they are conventional weapons.

D.

Germany

  • Blohm & Voss BV 143 , a glide bomb development from the Second World War, especially for use against ships.
  • Blohm & Voss BV 246 , also a glide bomb from the Second World War, primarily intended for use against important point targets such as bridges.
  • Fritz X , a German guided bomb from World War II that can be seen as the forerunner of today's precision-guided weapons.
  • Hope / hosbo , glide bombs long range (up to 160 km) of German development, among other things, a Ho chleistungs- Pe can wear netrator warhead for use against strong verbunkerter goals. ( "HOSBO" stands for Ho chleistungs- S preng- Bo MBE).

F.

France

Conventional weapons

  • BLU-107 Durandal , a weapon that is optimized for use against runways and taxiways of military airfields.

Nuclear weapons

G

Great Britain

Conventional weapons

  • BL755 , a cluster bomb from 1970 that was used until at least 2007.
  • Grand Slam , the heaviest aerial bomb used in a war to date, weighing 10 tons. This successor to the Tallboy (see below) was used to attack heavily bunkered or other hard targets in Nazi Germany, such as submarine bunkers and railway viaducts.
  • Tallboy , a bomb weighing 5.4 tons, which after being dropped through the aerodynamic construction made of high-strength steel, accelerated to supersonic speed and could either drill deep into the ground to cause a strong earthquake-like vibration in the event of a detonation or penetrate heavily bunkered targets .

I.

Iran

Conventional weapons

R.

Russia / Soviet Union

Conventional weapons

  • Father of all bombs , an aerosol bomb with a presumed explosive force of 44 tons of TNT, which is more powerful than its US counterpart MOAB (see below). It is also known under the names Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power and FOAB ( Father Of All Bombs ).
  • KAB-1500 , a precision-guided bomb with a selectable combat and seeker head in the 1000-1500 kilo class.
  • KAB-500 , a precision-guided bomb with a selectable combat and seeker head of the 500-1000 kilo class.

Nuclear weapons

  • Tsar bomb , the most powerful weapon ever detonated. During the test on October 30, 1961, it had an explosive force of 50 to 60 megatons of TNT, the pressure wave could still be measured after three orbits around the earth, window panes broke in Sweden, 1000 km away.

V

United States of America

Conventional weapons

  • AGM-62 Walleye , an electro-optically guided glide bomb which u. a. was used in the Vietnam War .
  • AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon , a modern glide bomb with different steering methods (including GPS ) and different warheads (cluster munitions, bunker-breaking ...)
  • T-12 Cloudmaker , a bomb based on the "Grand Slam principle" (see above). At 20 tons, it is the heaviest conventional bomb ever put into service.
  • BLU82 Daisy Cutter , a very powerful bomb that is only suitable for dropping from transport aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules and was developed to blow up helicopter landing areas in areas with dense vegetation (such as the Southeast Asian jungle).
  • GBU-15 , an electro-optically (TV or IR) guided glide bomb. Developed in the 1970s, it is still used today.
  • GBU-28 , a laser-guided bunker - breaking bomb developed in an ad hoc program in 1991. This was the USAF's fastest procurement program, with less than 12 weeks between conception and testing.
  • GBU-43 MOAB , an even more powerful bomb than the Daisy Cutter . It is GPS-guided and serves u. a. to attack troop concentrations and caves.
  • Mk-80 series , a family of bombs that became the NATO standard. In particular, the Mark 82 all-purpose bomb is one of the most frequently dropped weapons in the world to this day.
  • Mark 77 , an unguided incendiary bomb. As a replacement for napalm weapons from the wars in Southeast Asia, it is the only incendiary bomb currently in use by the US armed forces .
  • Small Diameter Bomb , this weapon is the smallest precision-guided bomb used by the US armed forces and has been in use since September 2006. It is used u. a. thought of the F-35 , whose internal weapon bays have limited space. Conventional aircraft can carry more SDBs than other bombs.
  • VB-13 Tarzon (renamed ASM-A-1 from 1948 ) is the last and heaviest guided bomb from the Vertical Bomb series.

Nuclear weapons

  • B53 , a nuclear fusion weapon with several megatons of explosive power, is now retired.
  • B61 , a weapon currently in the arsenal with an adjustable explosive force in the kiloton range.
  • B83 , a weapon currently in the arsenal with an adjustable explosive force up to a maximum of 1.2 megatons.
  • Mark 1 , a gun-design nuclear fission bomb . Little Boy , the bomb in the Hiroshima attack, was of that type.
  • Mark 3 , the first nuclear weapon added to the American arsenal. Fat Man was that guy.
  • W29 was a planned US nuclear warhead