A dud is in general something that fails to function in the way it is intended to. [1] In a military context the word is often used to refer to an ammunition round or explosive that fails to fire or detonate as expected.

The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag. The company manufactures outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times.

2011年6月5日 · An examination of USAAF raids against 13 oil and chemical plants found that out of 16,620 bombs which landed in the target area 2,004 did not explode, a dud rate of 12.1%. RAF raids against the same targets had 6,154 bombs falling within the target area of which 1,168 failed to detonate, a dud rate of 19.0%.

It might be a genuine dud, i.e., an atomic bomb that did not explode as intended. It might be a delayed-action bomb, or it might be a harmless casing deliberately filled with inert material.

Duds are apparent antimatter bombs that failed to detonate before hitting the ground (hence the name), most likely as a result of some kind of war long ago. Presumably, it is an obsolete equivalent to the Balefire Bomb. If it successfully detonates, it will produce the Balefire explosion equivalent to a mini-nuke.

2024年9月4日 · Out of the 6.3 million High explosive Bombs The US dropped over Reich occupied Europe by the US some 126,000 will have failed to detonate. They were likely buried into the soil around 25 feet deep...

Unexploded aerial Bombs, also known as duds or unfused bombs, of the bombardments in the past wars remain explosive for decades after the war under the earth’s surface threatening the civil activities especially if dredging works are involved.

As nouns the difference between bomb and dud is that bomb is an explosive device used or intended as a weapon while dud is (informal) a device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.

2023年5月13日 · The H-bomb, quite simply, is the acme of nuclear weapons technology. Naturally Indian scientists—who conducted a stunning five nuclear tests in May 1998—regarded the detonation of an H-bomb as their crowning glory.

What is the difference between Bomb and Dud? Bomb as a noun is an explosive device used or intended as a weapon. while Dud as a noun is a broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.