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It was also fitted with an AIM-9B Sidewinder infra-red seeker and an AGM-45 Shrike nose cone during 1967 tests at the Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake, possibly in an attempt to create an infra-red guided bomb. [2] This was called the Bombwinder. 15 of these M118 Paveway Is were evaluated between 15 October to 9 November 1969. [1]
The Mk 20 Rockeye II, CBU-99 Rockeye II, and CBU-100 Rockeye II comprise an American cluster bomb family which are employed primarily in an anti-tank mode against armored vehicles. They are an air-launched, conventional free-fall, explosively opened, submunition dispensing, cluster bomb. [ 1 ]
On March 2, 1965, following the Attack on Camp Holloway at Pleiku, Operation Flaming Dart and Operation Rolling Thunder commenced. The bombing campaign, which ultimately lasted three years, was intended to force North Vietnam to cease its support for the Vietcong (VC) by threatening to destroy North Vietnam's air defenses and industrial infrastructure.
Two types of cluster munitions were transferred to Israel from the US The first was the CBU-58 which uses the BLU-63 bomblet. 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]
[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 to aim it before it drops; once dropped it needs no further instruction, as opposed to guided munitions or smart bombs. The bomb can be dropped by a variety of modern-day aircraft.
MK 84 were used by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, [12] Iraq War and Afghanistan War and bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, [13] and by Israel in the 2014 Gaza War and Gaza War. [14] [15] According to a forensic investigation by Human Rights Watch, MK 84 bombs were also in the Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war. [16]
Guns: 2× 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon, 100 rounds/gun; Hardpoints: 4× under-wing & 1× under-fuselage pylon stations with a capacity of 8,500 lb (3,900 kg), with provisions to carry combinations of: Rockets: 4× LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4× 127 mm Mk 32 Zuni rockets) Bombs: 6× Rockeye-II Mark 20 Cluster Bomb Unit (CBU)
The British military switched to Land Service or "L" number ("LXA1/A2/A3/etc.") designations in 1954, [1] but items such as the No. 8 Mk 1 0.22in Rifle, [2] [3] [4] No. 80 Mk 1 White Phosphorus Smoke Hand Grenade, [5] No. 1 Mk 3 6 Inch Beehive Demolition Charge, [6] [7] and No. 14 Mk 1 11 lb Hayrick Demolition Charge [8] continued to be ...