Another favourite of many of our youths, airbombs have no other purpose than creating a very loud bang. Typically from one shot launched from a tube but sometimes a double effect. Technically, airbombs are single or double shot roman candles.
Airbombs were banned a little later than bangers, in the noughties, as part of continuing efforts to remove pocket money nuisance fireworks from sale in the UK. Because it was the cheap cost and appeal to children that drove this ban, larger cakes and barrages containing effects which only bang (in effect, a battery of airbombs) are still fully legal. So you’re not allowed to make a single loud bang, but say 25 in a row is fine. One of the many peculiarities of UK fireworks legislation!
Like bangers, airbombs are a popular black market firework in the UK and Ireland. Be warned that however genuine and “legal” airbombs might look (some are sold as replicas of popular brands such as Black Cat), they’re an illegal firework in the UK.
Thanks to UKFR Forum members TONYB and fozzboy for kindly supplying the photos used on this page.