An unguided bomb, also known as a free-fall bomb, gravity bomb, dumb bomb, or iron bomb, is an aircraft-dropped bomb (conventional or nuclear) that does...

bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during the Vietnam War, it became a commonly used US heavy unguided bomb....

laser-guided bomb (LGB) is a guided bomb that uses semi-active laser guidance to strike a designated target with greater accuracy than an unguided bomb. First...

fraction of the cost—sometimes by installing flight control kits on simple unguided bombs—and they are very difficult for surface-to-air missiles to intercept...

accurate than an unguided bomb. During WWII the British adopted a description of general-purpose bombs as medium capacity (MC) bombs. The 1,000 lb (450 kg)...

munitions resulted in the retroactive renaming of older bombs as unguided bombs or "dumb bombs". Guided bombs carry a guidance system which is usually monitored...

EO/GPS- guidance kit used for converting air-droppable unguided bombs into precision-guided bombs. The featured guidance system is a derivative of the respective...

that a carpet covers a floor. Carpet bombing is usually achieved by dropping many unguided bombs. Carpet bombing of cities, towns, villages, or other...

The B83 is a variable-yield thermonuclear gravity bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s that entered service in 1983. With a maximum yield...

Kosvinsky is protected by about 1,000 feet (300 m) of granite. The B61 unguided bomb should not be confused with the MGM-1 Matador cruise missile, which...