Why are bombs, the ones dropped from airplanes, shaped like an oval with fins on one end? Why aren’t they spheres so they just fall down onto the target?
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The way a bomb works is that, by impacting the fuse, you trigger the mechanism. The detonator is triggered by an impact.
The issue a sphere has is drag. If you think of a perfectly round ball versus a golf ball, one has erratic movement because the curved surfaces basically deflect wind in the wildest ways. You want the bomb to fall down, on your target, and be triggered by the detonator.
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