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’s CBU-105 was the last remaining U.S. cluster munition to meet that requirement — at least on paper, said Megan Burke, the director for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and ...

A single B-1B 'Bone' carrying 24 CBU-105s and six 1,000lb laser guided bombs is vectored into the area at high speed for a time-sensitive attack by the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC ...

The CBU-105 is a heat-seeking weapon. Its sensors look for engines of tanks, personnel carriers and other sources of high temperature. ... "With a cluster bomb like this," says Pike, ...

During Operation Allied Force in Yugoslavia and Kosovo, the U.S. dropped about 1,100 CBU-87 cluster bombs (each containing 202 submunitions), the U.K. dropped about 500 RBL-755 cluster bombs (each ...

Use of CBU-87s and other Cluster Bombs in Kosovo. U.S., British and Dutch aircraft dropped more than 1,765 cluster bombs containing more than 295,000 cluster bomblets during the NATO air campaign ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...