Editing Bomb (section)

==Delivery==
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[[File:B-2 Spirit bombing, 1994.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit|B-2 Spirit]] drops forty-seven {{convert|500|lb|kg|abbr=on}} class [[Mark 82 bomb|Mark 82]] bombs (little more than half a B-2's maximum total ordnance payload) in a 1994 [[live fire exercise]] in [[California]]]]
[[File:211113-Z-IB607-1016 - M320 grenade launcher range (Image 6 of 16).jpg|thumb|A [[National Guard (United States)|United States National Guard]] soldier firing a [[40 mm grenade]] from an [[M320 Grenade Launcher Module|M320]] [[grenade launcher]]]]
[[File:Pommitustuhoja Helsingissä JSdia270.jpg|thumb|Destruction caused by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] bombing during the [[Continuation War]] in [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]], the night of February 6–7, 1944]]

The [[first air-dropped bomb]]s were used by the Austrians in the 1849 [[Republic of San Marco|siege of Venice]].  Two hundred unmanned balloons carried small bombs, although few bombs actually hit the city.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pS1QpH8FRgC&q=Venice+bombing+1849&pg=PA10 |title=Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of their Impact |last=Murphy |first=Justin |year=2005 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=1-85109-488-1 |page=10 |access-date=2008-05-26}}</ref>

The first bombing from a fixed-wing aircraft took place in 1911 when the Italians dropped bombs by hand on the Turkish lines in what is now [[Libya]], during the [[Italo-Turkish War]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R-I3Zsdm14wC&q=Lindqvist+Bombing+Libya&pg=PA76 |title=Shock and Awe: War on Words |chapter=Guernica |last=Lindqvist |first=Sven |others=published by Van Eekelen, Bregje |year=2004 |publisher=[[North Atlantic Books]] |isbn=0-9712546-0-5 |page=76 |access-date=2008-05-26}}</ref> The first large scale dropping of bombs took place during [[World War I]] starting in 1915 with the German [[Zeppelin]] airship raids on [[London]], England, and the same war saw the invention of the first [[heavy bomber]]s.  One Zeppelin raid on 8 September 1915 dropped {{convert|4000|lb|abbr=on}} of high explosives and incendiary bombs, including one bomb that weighed {{convert|600|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>[[Wilbur Cross (author)|Wilbur Cross]], "Zeppelins of World War I" page 35, published 1991 Paragon House ISBN I-56619-390-7</ref>

During [[World War II]] bombing became a major military feature, and a number of novel delivery methods were introduced. These included [[Barnes Wallis]]'s [[bouncing bomb]], designed to bounce across water, avoiding [[torpedo net]]s and other underwater defenses, until it reached a [[dam]], [[ship]], or other destination, where it would sink and explode. By the end of the war, planes such as the allied forces' [[Avro Lancaster]] were delivering with {{convert|50|yd|abbr=on}} accuracy from {{convert|20000|ft|abbr=on}}, ten ton [[earthquake bomb]]s (also invented by Barnes Wallis) named "[[Grand Slam (bomb)|Grand Slam]]", which, unusually for the time, were delivered from high altitude in order to gain high speed, and would, upon impact, penetrate and explode deep underground ("[[camouflet]]"), causing massive caverns or craters, and affecting targets too large or difficult to be affected by other types of bomb.

Modern military [[bomber]] aircraft are designed around a large-capacity internal [[bomb bay]], while [[fighter-bomber]]s usually carry bombs externally on pylons or bomb racks or on multiple ejection racks, which enable mounting several bombs on a single pylon.  Some bombs are equipped with a [[parachute]], such as the World War II "parafrag" (an {{convert|11|kg|abbr=on}} fragmentation bomb), the [[Vietnam War]]-era [[BLU-82|daisy cutters]], and the bomblets of some modern [[cluster bomb]]s.  Parachutes slow the bomb's descent, giving the dropping aircraft time to get to a safe distance from the explosion.  This is especially important with air-burst [[nuclear weapons]] (especially those dropped from slower aircraft or with very high yields), and in situations where the aircraft releases a bomb at low altitude.<ref name="Proceedings">{{cite report |author=Jackson, S.B. |title=The Retardation of Weapons for Low Altitude Bombing |publisher=United States Naval Institute Proceedings |date=June 1968}}</ref> A number of modern bombs are also [[precision-guided munition]]s, and may be guided after they leave an aircraft by remote control, or by autonomous guidance.

Aircraft may also deliver bombs in the form of [[warhead]]s on guided [[missile]]s, such as long-range [[cruise missile]]s, which can also be launched from [[warship]]s.

A [[hand grenade]] is delivered by being thrown. Grenades can also be projected by other means, such as being launched from the muzzle of a [[rifle]] (as in the [[rifle grenade]]), using a [[grenade launcher]] (such as the [[M203 grenade launcher|M203]]), or by attaching a [[rocket]] to the explosive grenade (as in a [[rocket-propelled grenade]] (RPG)).

A bomb may also be positioned in advance and concealed.

A bomb destroying a [[rail track]] just before a [[train]] arrives will usually cause the train to [[derailment|derail]]. In addition to the damage to vehicles and people, a bomb exploding in a [[transport]] network often damages, and is sometimes mainly intended to damage, the network itself. This applies to [[railway]]s, [[bridge]]s, [[runway]]s, and [[port]]s, and, to a lesser extent (depending on circumstances), to roads.

In the case of [[suicide bombing]], the bomb is often carried by the attacker on their body, or in a vehicle driven to the target.

The [[Blue Peacock]] nuclear mines, which were also termed "bombs", were planned to be positioned during wartime and be constructed such that, if disturbed, they would explode within ten seconds.

The explosion of a bomb may be triggered by a [[detonator]] or a [[Fuse (explosives)|fuse]]. Detonators are triggered by [[clock]]s, [[remote control]]s like [[cell phone]]s or some kind of sensor, such as pressure (altitude), [[radar]], vibration or contact. Detonators vary in ways they work, they can be electrical, fire [[fuze]] or blast initiated detonators and others,