US Air Force Cluster bombs saturate the area below with small bomblets or submunitions, like the USAF’s 1,000-pound CBU-103 , which scatters over 200 bomblets resembling soda cans across an area ...

The Air Force recently tested a new next-generation fragmentation bomb on the F-16 Fighting Falcon meant to be an alternative to cluster munitions that diminishes the risk of unexploded ordnance ...

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 ...

U.S. has not signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions hence B-52 Stratofortress ... the 23rd Bomb Squadron, Minot Air Force ... made of a Cluster Bomb Unit-103 and two CBU-87B ...

The B-52, one of the Air Force's biggest bomber, has successfully completed trials deploying PDU-5/B leaflet canisters from its external bomb ... CBU, or Cluster Bomb Unit. The Air Force's ...

A B-52 bomber dropped two CBU-105 cluster bombs aimed at the leading edge of the Iraqi armor. “The entire first third of the Iraqi tank column was decimated,” said Air Force Col. James Knox.

U.S. Air Force photo. The U.S. Air Force recently tested a new cluster bomb in the skies over California. While the Pentagon is phasing out most cluster munitions in its inventory, this new bomb ...

The crew of that plane, we are told, dropped what looked like a fairly standard 1,000-pound bomb. But this particular one, dubbed the CBU-105, is seeing its first action ever in combat, and ...

The B-52 used a PDU-5/B, a new-use or variant of an older Cluster Bomb Uni designated MK 20 Rockeye II, SUU-76B/B, and/or CBU-99/100 depending on the type of filler used in the bomb.

A new kind of bomb made its combat debut in Wednesday's attack on Republican Guard forces, according to the Air Force. A B-52 Stratofortress dropped six sensor-fused CBU-105 cluster bombs on a ...

The U.S. Air Force unleashed a deadly new weapon during yesterday’s onslaught against armored Republican Guard units – precision-guided cluster bombs that seek out and destroy dozens of… ...

During Operation Allied Force, the U.S. dropped about 1,100 CBU-87s (each containing 202 submunitions), the United Kingdom dropped about 500 RBL-755 cluster bombs (each containing 147 submunitions ...