Why are bombs shaped like bombs and not spheres?

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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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You want them to land on the part that had the detonation device, so they’re designed to land with a nose down.

The impact triggers a detonation device.

It also falls more predictably than a sphere

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