They are referred to as "smart-guided" cluster bombs, and intended to achieve an accuracy of within 30 feet. Older cluster bombs can be used at altitudes of 200 to 20,000 feet, and at speeds of up to ...

September 13, 2013: Saudi Arabia has joined South Korea, India, Oman, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates as purchasers of CBU-105 sensor fuzed weapons. Average cost is over $700,000 each of these ...

The CBU-105 cluster bomb contains 10 canisters, each of which disperses 4 explosive bomblets, called “skeets,” which can spread out over an area the size of a football field before detonating.

In 2013, Textron landed a controversial $641 million contract to produce 1,300 of the cluster bombs for Saudi Arabia. While the CBU-105 is banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, US law ...

In this video, we delve into the complex world of non-guided aerial weaponry as we explore the Mk 20, also known as the CBU-100 Cluster Bomb. This powerful weapon, crafted with meticulous detail ...

The 1,206 cluster bombs it reported using in Iraq included 818 CBU-103s and eighty-eight CBU-105s. 29 The WCMD can reduce humanitarian harm by making it less likely civilians will be hit by a ...

Each air-dropped CBU-58 cluster bomb contains 650 submunitions. The United States transferred 1,000 CBU-58 bombs to Saudi Arabia sometime between 1970 and 1995, according to US export records ...

Cluster bombs... Saudi-led coalition forces have dropped US-made cluster bombs on Yemeni neighborhoods. ... collapsed roofs and sandal-clad feet navigating rubble across the Yemeni capital. And you ...

Ukraine has broadened a request for controversial cluster bombs from the United States to include a weapon that it wants to cannibalize to drop the anti-armor bomblets it contains on Russian ...