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 ...

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 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 ...

Textron just won an enormous $640 million contract to build 1,300 cluster bombs. ... bomblets dropped by traditional cluster bombs, the CBU-105 actually performs its own series of spectacular ...

Cluster bombs are back in the U.S. military arsenal. A Department of Defense memo released last week reversed an impending ban on the highly controversial weapons that had been set to come into effect ...

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 ... an attack by this cluster bomb unit would ...

6 CBU stands for "cluster bomb unit." Although there are other munitions that use this designation, CBU in this report refers to CBU-87s and CBU-103s.

The CBU-97 is very similar to the 'peel away,' drum-like cluster bomb canisters of decades past. Once dropped over an enemy formation, surface-to-air missile site or air base, the cluster bomb ...

How a cluster bomb works 1. 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. The canister starts to ...

A single US CBU-105 cluster bomb contains 40 bomblets and the British RBL-755 bomb contains 150. The military estimate is that about five per cent of bomblets malfunction.

During the first week of the campaign, it is believed that Air Force B-1 bombers dropped 50 CBU-87 cluster bombs in some five missions. CBU-87 cluster bomb use has continued after the first week ...