U.S. has not signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions hence B-52 Stratofortress bombers ... two B-52s from the 23rd Bomb Squadron, Minot Air Force Base, successfully dropped conventional cluster ...

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 US Air Force has successfully completed two tests of the B-52 Stratofortress bomber in ... The PDU-5/B is a variant of the CBU, or Cluster Bomb Unit. The Air Force's Information Warfare ...

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.

But this particular one, dubbed the CBU-105, is seeing its first action ever in combat, and according to the U.S. Air Force ... "With a cluster bomb like this," says Pike, "a single B-52 can ...

The US Air Force ... 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 ...

Won't Happen: The A-10 Warthog, renowned for its resilience and heavy ground-attack capabilities, is now being phased out by the U.S. Air ... II cluster bombs, cluster bomb unit CBU-52/71 ...

Minot’s 5th Bomb Wing flies the long-range, nuclear-capable bomber on conventional combat and nuclear deterrence missions around the world. The Air Force has owned its fleet of nearly 80 ...

We're part of their heritage," Worthen said. The 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, which is home to the B-52s, still flies around the globe to this day.