Manufacturer: Textron Inc. [NYSE: TXT]
The CBU-97 sensor-fuzed weapon is an extremely potent anti-armor cluster bomb. It combines so many different technologies of lethality and has so many moving parts for a bomb that initial observes questioned whether it would even work. Basically, the CBU-97 is dropped over a column of enemy armor, the bomb “clusters” and releases it’s sub-munitions, which are like smaller little bombs themselves. Each sub-munition is slowed by a parachute, and then each sub-munition fires 4 hockey puck sized “skeets” over the target area. The skeets contain an infrared targeting system and a copper EFP (explosively formed penetrator, a type of shape charge). Once the skeet locks unto a vehicle it fires the EFP at the target, which essentially is a slug of molten copper that can deeply penetrate armor. One CBU-97 has the potential to destroy up to 40 armored vehicles. Please note that the CBU-97 is also referred to as the CBU-105.
See this Cluster Bomb Video
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Just a note, the CBU-105 has an inertial guidance package in the tail of the bomb to correct for wind drift when dropped from higher altitudes.
Posted on August 14th, 2008 at 11:57 am
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Posted on October 4th, 2008 at 6:52 am
can u please make this video available.
otherwise can u plz mail it on my ID?
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 5:23 am
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