Guidry, Roxy (2012) Handbook of aircraft weapons. Orange Apple, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132327707
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An aerial bomb is a type of bomb intended to travel through the air with predictable trajectories, usually designed to be dropped from an aircraft. Aerial bombs include a vast range and complexity of designs , from " dumb " ( gravity fall ) to " smart " ( remote or self guided ) , hand tossed from a vehicle , to needing a large specially built delivery vehicle ; or perhaps be the vehicle itself such as a glide bomb, instant detonation or delay-action bomb. The act is finished aerial bombing. The first bombs delivered to their targets by air were launched on unmanned balloons, carrying a single bomb, by the Austrians against Venice in 1849. Prior to this the Napoleonic armies used balloons for reconnaissance. The first air - dropped bomb from a powered aircraft is recorded as when Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of the Italian Army dropped four grenades from his Blériot XI aircraft onto an Ottoman military encampment at the Taguira oasis in Libya, on 1 November 1911. Following Italy's bombing, a second bombing occurred in Mazatlán, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. General Venustiano Carranza (later president of Mexico), attempted to take the city of Mazatlán, ordered a biplane to drop a crude bomb of nails and dynamite wrapped in leather on Neveria Hill adjacent to the city's downtown area. The bomb was crude, and the art of bombing was even cruder. The bomb did not land on the target but on the city streets. The bomb killed two citizens and wounded 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 aircraft.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2022 08:13 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2022 08:13 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3584 |
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