This is a list of the types of bombs.
| Type | Information | Date created | Inventor | Place of origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel bomb | Improvised unguided aerial bomb made from a barrel or barrel-shaped container filled with explosives. They can sometimes be filled with chemicals, shrapnel and oil. | 1948 | Israel | |
| Blockbuster bomb | "High capacity" bomb for maximum blast effect, only used during World War II. | April 1941 | United Kingdom | |
| Bouncing bomb | Skips across water; designed to attack German dams in World War II. | April 1942 | Barnes Wallis | United Kingdom |
| Bunker buster | A bunker buster is used to penetrate targets that are either deep underground or protected by hard surfaces. The first type of these was the Röchling shell. | 1942 | August Coenders | Germany |
| C4 | A part of the Composition C family, a family of plastic explosives. | 1956 | ||
| Car bomb | A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated. | |||
| Cluster bomb | Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb. | Germany | ||
| General-purpose bomb | These bombs use thick metal as walls containing explosives such as Composition B or Tritonal. | |||
| Glide bomb | A standoff weapon with flight control surfaces, aerodynamic devices that allow for control by the pilot. | |||
| Guided bomb | Also known as "guided bomb unit" or the "smart bomb", these missiles carry a guidance system which is controlled and monitored from an external device. | |||
| Improvised explosive device | An explosive that is not manufactured conventionally. They are sometimes termed as "homemade". | |||
| Land mine | Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. | 1832 | Ming Dynasty | |
| Laser guided bomb | Uses a laser as guidance to increase the accuracy of hitting its target. | United States | ||
| Molotov cocktail | Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle. | |||
| Missle | An airborne explosive self-propelled by a jet, engine or propellant. | |||
| Nail bomb | An explosive packed with nails which upon ignition, acts like shrapnel. | 1970 | ||
| Pipe bomb | An improvised explosive using a firmly sealed pipe filled with an explosive material. | |||
| Pressure cooker bomb | The pressure of the pressure cooker places high explosive power. | |||
| Smoke bomb | A firework that is designed to produce a large amount of smoke upon being ignited. | 1848 | United Kingdom | |
| Stink bomb | Stink bombs range in effectiveness from simple pranks to military grade or riot control chemical agents. | 1943 | ||
| Suicide vest or suicide bomber | An explosive on either a vest or a belt that is worn by its respective detonator. | China | ||
| Suitcase bomb | Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. | 1950s | ||
| Thermometric bomb | Also called a vacuum bomb, or aerosol bomb, this explosive disperses a cloud of gas or liquid. | |||
| Time bomb | A bomb that is triggered by the timer. | |||
| Trinitrotoluene | Commonly known as TNT. | 1863 | Julius Wilbrand | Germany |
| Unguided bomb | An air-craft dropped bomb that lacks a guidance system. | |||
| MOAB | Massive Ordnance Air Burst. Colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs. | United States | ||
| FOAB | Father of All Bombs. | 2007 | Russia | |
| Electromagnetic bomb | Releases a brust of electromagnetic energy. | 1962 | ||
| Napalm bomb | Contains an incendiary mixture used to cause a fire. | |||
| Dirty bomb | Scatters radioactive material. | |||
| Nuclear bomb | An explosive whose destructiveness is a result of nuclear reactions. | 1945 | J. Robert Oppenheimer | United States |
| Tsar Bomba | A thermonuclear aerial bomb which was the most powerful bomb created and tested in history. | October 1961 | Soviet Union | |
| Cobalt bomb | A nuclear bomb designed to spread as much radiation around as possible. | |||
| Hydrogen bomb | Second-generation nuclear weapon design using non-fissile depleted uranium to create a nuclear fusion reaction. | 1952 | Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam | United States |
| Neutron bomb | A nuclear weapon designed to destroy with lethal radiation while not damaging structures. | |||
| BLU-82 | Used for creating clearings in forested areas. |
