Bombing

In warfare of the twentieth century, an air-to-ground deployment of explosive devices (bombs) intended to decimate enemy installations, equipment, or personnel. There are five basic types of bombs used in such attacks: demolition (designed to destroy buildings); fragmentation (bombs that kill personnel by means of flying shrapnel); general purpose (a combination of demolition and fragmentation technology); incendiary (such antipersonnel and anti-installation firebombs as napalm); and antiarmor (thickly cased armor-piercing bombs used to destroy warships, fortified bunkers and similar...

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