The prime requisite for military aircraft is to use their wide and highly mobile striking power to drop bombs of various weights and for various purposes on enemy objectives. Bombs are manufactured in many different weight classifications because military conditions require attack on numerous objectives which require specific types of bombs, and inasmuch as the load capacity of most aircraft is limited, a large number of bombs carried means smaller and lighter ones, and a small number of bombs, larger and heavier ones, by conclusion.
Bombs may be roughly classified in the following groups:
Bombs carry highly interesting and intricate mechanical devices which control detonation and which provide safety elements for the crew and plane and in cases where it is necessary to drop live bombs on friendly territory and it is desired to prevent their explosion. Incorporated with demolition bombs are various mechanical time fuses. Bombs may also be dropped by parachute for the purpose of having them land at points remote from the plane which dropped them, and as suprise attacks on the enemy. Among parachute equipment is such havoc making material as mines of different types.
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