Anti-runway penetration bomb

Perhaps the most strategically decisive, best known, and first wartime use of specialized cratering anti-runway weapons was by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Within five days, they had their answer: an Israeli-designed Runway Buster that would only cost 2,000 Lira (the country's currency in 1967) to produce.

Dropped by aircraft flying at low level, it is braked by parachute, and when at the correct angle fires a rocket to impact the runway.

[2][4] The Durandal was used in 1991 by the United States Air Force in the initial stages of the Gulf War, delivered by General Dynamics F-111 Aardvarks against Iraqi airfields.

The anti-personnel mines could be armed with time-delay fuses, threatening runway repair crews with the risk of death or bodily injury.