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Mark 62 Quickstrike mine – A naval mine, which is a conversion of the Mark 82 bomb. [21] Mark 82 Mod 7 – Near-term solution for cluster bomb replacement that replaces the forged steel casing with a unitary "cast ductile iron" warhead and reconfigured burst height and fuze locations, dispersing iron fragmentation over a large area to fulfill ...
An unguided 500 lb (230 kg) Mark 82 bomb with no retarder An unguided bomb, also known as a free-fall bomb, gravity bomb, dumb bomb, or iron bomb, is an aircraft-dropped bomb (conventional or nuclear) that does not contain a guidance system and hence simply follows a ballistic trajectory.
The Mark 84 or BLU-117 [7] is a 2,000-pound (900 kg) American general purpose aircraft bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during the Vietnam War , it became a commonly used US heavy unguided bomb .
A 4,000 lb (1.8 t) blockbuster bomb being loaded onto a De Havilland Mosquito of the RAF, circa 1944. The explosive filling of tritonal 80/20 is stencilled on the side, inside the chalked "O" of "Adolf" A 750 lb (340 kg) M117 bomb. The explosive filling of tritonal is stencilled on the nose
The Griffin Laser Guided Bomb (Griffin LGB) is a laser-guided bomb system made by Israel Aerospace Industries' MBT missile division. It is an add-on kit which is used to retrofit existing Mark 82, Mark 83, and Mark 84 and other unguided bombs, making them into laser-guided smart bombs (with the option of GPS guidance). [1]
The Mark 81 is a general-purpose 250-pound (110 kg) bomb (nicknamed "Firecracker"). It's the smallest of the Mark 80 series of low- drag general-purpose bombs . Development and deployment
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Mark 81 bomb: General-purpose bomb Mark 82 bomb: 12 more on order. [43] Mark 83 bomb: Mark 84 bomb: Matra Durandal
Ten Mark 83 bombs aboard a US Navy F/A-18E. The nominal weight of the bomb is 1,000 pounds (450 kg), although its actual weight varies between 985 pounds (447 kg) and 1,030 pounds (470 kg), depending on fuze options, [1] and fin configuration. [2] The Mk 83 is a streamlined steel casing containing 445 pounds (202 kg) of tritonal high explosive ...