An
aerial bomb is a type of
explosive weapon 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 unguided
gravity bombs to
guided bombs, 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 termed aerial bombing. As with other types of
explosive weapons, aerial bombs are designed to kill and injure people and destroy
materiel through the projection of blast and fragmentation outwards from the point of detonation.