CBU-87 cluster bomb use has continued after the first week, and it is believed that other airplanes joined B-1s in dropping cluster bombs on both fixed and mobile targets.

The CBU-87, whose initial production dates to 1984, was one of the first designs to provide some control over the footprint through its spin mechanism. ... 6 CBU stands for "cluster bomb unit." ...

Cluster bombs have a bad rep and for good reasons. ... With the WCMD kit attached, the CBU-87 Combined Effects cluster munition is called a CBU-103.

Much less crude and weighing in at 1,000 pounds, CBU-87/B warheads were in the category of “combined effects munitions” when put to use 14 years ago by a bomber named Uncle Sam. The U.S. media ...

ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The civilian lives across Afghanistan are under serious threat because of the highly volatile unexploded cluster bombs, dropped by the US warplanes during the last 40 days ...

So far in Afghanistan, the U.S. has been dropping CBU-87 cluster bombs, known to be inaccurate at high altitudes. The CBU-87 drops the kind of bomblets that littered the ground in Kalakan.

These Cluster Bombs Started Killing Civilians Before They Left U.S. Soil. ... Each CBU-87 held 202 BLU-97 bomblets, which meant the plant needed to assemble millions of bomblets to keep up.

The 2,000-pound bomb, part of a family of warheads that also includes the 500-pound BLU-134, releases deadly metal fragments instead of the "bomblets" released by the CBU-87 and CBU-103 cluster ...

The cluster bomb, in this case a CBU-87, is dropped from a plane and can fly about nine miles before releasing its load of about 200 bomblets. 2.

"For those dreams taken, here are a few nightmares." The message, hand-stenciled in black magic marker, was on a large piece of debris left from a U.S. bomb dropped on a mountain ridge. It said ...

Cluster bombs are good at destroying lots of things spread over a huge area. What they’re not so good at is always exploding, with the sub-munitions falling to the ground and failing to detonate.