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CONVENTIONAL BOMB [7 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bombs and Grenades
  • CBRNE Weapons
OBS

A nuclear depth bomb is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional depth charge, and can be used in anti-submarine warfare for attacking submerged submarines.

OBS

nuclear depth bomb; NDB: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bombes et grenades
  • Armes CBRNE
DEF

Bombe nucléaire destinée à la lutte contre les sous-marins.

OBS

Lâchée d'un hélicoptère, elle éclate en profondeur, écrasant le sous-marin par surpression.

OBS

grenade anti-sous-marine nucléaire : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

Key term(s)
  • grenade anti sous marine nucléaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Bombs and Grenades
DEF

A flat-bottomed wooden sailing vessel intended to carry one or more mortars and to launch bombs.

CONT

Bomb Vessel : Developed by the French to battle the Barbary corsairs, these vessels used high trajectory mortars instead of conventional guns. The hull was strengthened to take the weight of one or more mortars and the foremast was completely omitted. Late 18th century bomb vessels would have had a full three-masted rig, and some were used for perilous polar expeditions since their sturdily built hulls would hold up well in the ice.

OBS

Some bomb vessels were used for perilous polar expeditions since their sturdily built hulls would hold up well in the ice.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Bombes et grenades
DEF

Vaisseau à voile en bois et à fond plat destiné à porter un ou plusieurs mortiers et à lancer des bombes.

OBS

Certaines bombardes étaient utilisées pour des expéditions polaires périlleuses, car leurs coques robustes résistaient à la glace.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • CBRNE Weapons
DEF

Any device, including a weapon or equipment other than a nuclear explosive device, specifically designed to employ radioactive material by disseminating it to cause destruction, damage or injury by means of the radiation produced by the decay of such material.

OBS

[Radiological dispersal devices] can be used to fulfill a wide variety of purposes and assume a number of different forms. [They] could consist of simply hiding a sealed radioactive source in an unsuspected place. Another technique is to embed radioactive material in a bomb with conventional explosives.

OBS

dirty bomb: Although the designation "dirty bomb" is often used as a synonym for "radiological dispersal device," it is in fact only one type of such a device.

OBS

radiological dispersal device; RDD: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes CBRNE
DEF

Tout dispositif, incluant les armes ou de l'équipement autre que les armes nucléaires explosives, spécialement conçu pour disperser des matières radioactives en vue de détruire, de causer des dommages ou des blessures suite à la désintégration des matières qui le composent.

OBS

bombe sale : Bien que la désignation «bombe sale» soit souvent utilisé comme synonyme de «dispositif de dispersion radiologique», il s'agit en effet d'un seul type de ce dispositif.

OBS

engin de dispersion radiologique; RDD : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
  • CBRNE Weapons
CONT

An IED [improvised explosive device] is a bomb fabricated in an "improvised" manner designed to destroy or incapacitate military personnel or civilians. The bomb itself may be a conventional military grade weapon, or an assortment of explosive components such as gasoline or agricultural fertilizer...

OBS

explosive component: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • explosive components

French

Domaine(s)
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
  • Armes CBRNE
CONT

L'usine [de l'entrepreneur français] est spécialisée dans la fabrication de la mélinite et de l'acide picrique qui sont des constituants explosifs utilisés pour la conception des obus.

OBS

composant explosif; constituant explosif : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • composants explosifs
  • constituants explosifs

Spanish

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Record 5 2021-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bombs and Grenades
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

A bomb where a laser beam emitted from the carrier aircraft sends signals to the guidance systems in the bomb, correcting its course by way of moveable fins, and entailing a more accurate placement of munitions.

OBS

To achieve the same amount of damage a LGB can be much smaller than a conventional free-fall bomb. LGBs have now been largely superseded by [precision guided munitions].

OBS

laser-guided bomb; LGB: designations standardized by NATO and officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bombes et grenades
  • Masers et lasers
CONT

Une bombe guidée laser (BGL) est une bombe guidée qui modifie elle-même sa trajectoire pour atteindre une cible désignée par un «spot» (ou tache) laser émis par un désignateur laser.

OBS

bombe à guidage laser; BGL : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN et uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment
CONT

The prankster's water bomb has matured into a new tool for fighting fires. Instead of low-flying helicopters and small planes pouring water over hot spots, Boeing has devised a way to use its C-17 military transports to bombard blazes with beach ball-size containers loaded with water or fire retardant. One advantage of using the multifaceted, biodegradable bombs is that they could be dropped with high precision, striking the core of the fire. Some 2800 containers bursting evenly at the same moment would be more effective than showering water from above. A fully loaded C-17 could deliver 144, 000 pounds of liquid in one spot or in several locations. Conventional "firebombers" usually empty an entire load in a single run.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de secours et de lutte (incendies)
CONT

Les bombes à eau, réalisées dans un matériau biodégradable, sont regroupées par lots de 36 sur des palettes en carton, selon une technique similaire [...] à celle employée lors de largages humanitaires en Afghanistan. Une soute de C-17 peut aisément contenir 2 800 bombes de ce type, soit un chargement de 64 tonnes d'eau pouvant être déversées en une seule passe sur la même zone ou, mieux encore, en quantités différentes sur plusieurs endroits distincts. [...] Enfin, grâce à des trajectoires déterministes, ces bombes à eau pourraient être larguées depuis des altitudes suffisantes pour préserver la sécurité de vol des appareils. [...] La formule des bombes à eau [...] implique en revanche une logistique lourde. Il faut en effet prévoir de véritables usines d'embouteillage et des stocks d'intervention au pied des pistes d'où doivent opérer les C-17 et le chargement de la soute est fatalement plus long que l'écopage pratiqué par les avions amphibies [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bombs and Grenades
  • Operations (Air Forces)
CONT

Aside from marking targets for laser-guided bombs, this pod also provides slant range measurement for more accurate conventional bomb delivery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bombes et grenades
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)
CONT

Cette nacelle permet de marquer un objectif pour des bombes à guidage laser mais également de mesurer la distance oblique en bombardement classique, d'où une meilleure précision.

Key term(s)
  • bombardement conventionnel

Spanish

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