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Bomb (explosive device) designed to travel tough the air with predictable trajectories, usually designed to be dropped from an aircraft. This includes a vast variety and complexity in designs, from "dumb" (simply dropped) to "smart" (remote or self guided), hand tossed from a vehicle, to needing a large special built vehicle, or maybe be the vehicle itself such as aGlide bomb , instant detonation or delay-action bomb. The act is termedAerial bombing .Early History
The first air-dropped bomb was dropped when Lieutenant
Giulio Gavotti of theItalian Army dropped four grenades from his Blériot aircraft onto an Ottoman military encampment at theTaguira oasis inLibya on 1 November 1911. [Grant, R.G. Flight - 100 Years of Aviation p. 59 Dorling-Kindersley Limited 2004 1-4503-0575-4]Following Italy's bombing, a second bombing occurred in
Mazatlán, Sinaloa , during theMexican Revolution . GeneralVenustiano Carranza (later president of Mexico) intent on taking the city of Mazatlán, ordered a biplane to drop a crude bomb of nails and dynamite wrapped in leather. The bomb was crude, and the art of bombing was even cruder, missing its intended mark and killing two citizens and wounding several others.The dropping of bombs from balloons had been outlawed by the
Hague Convention of 1899 , but Italy argued that this ban did not extend to airplanes.
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