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CBU stands for Cluster Bomb Unit. When the CBU-87 is used in conjunction with the Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser guidance tail kit, it becomes much more accurate, and is designated CBU-103. [1] The basic CBU-87 is designed to be dropped from an aircraft at any altitude and any air speed. It is a free-falling bomb and relies on the aircraft ...
The GATOR mine system is a United States military system of air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines developed in the 1980s to be compatible with existing cluster dispensers. It is used with two dispenser systems—the Navy 230 kg (500 lb) CBU-78/B and the Air Force 450 kg (1,000 lb) CBU-89/B.
CBU-55; CBU-72; CBU-75; CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition; CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon; CBU-98/B; CBU-100 Cluster Bomb; CBU-107 Passive Attack Weapon; Cluster Munition ...
When fitted with the WCMD the CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition, GBU-89 GATOR and the CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon are respectively known as the CBU-103, CBU-104 and the CBU-105; the latter anti-armor weapon was deployed but not used during Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War, and fired in combat during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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This cluster bomb is no longer in production. The second was the MK-20 Rockeye, produced by Honeywell Incorporated in Minneapolis. [citation needed] The CBU-58 was used by Israel in Lebanon in both 1978 and 1982. [52] The Israeli Defense company Israel Military Industries also manufactures the more up-to-date M-85 cluster bomb.
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