The BLU-109/B is a hardened bunker buster penetration bomb used by the United States Air Force (BLU is an acronym for Bomb Live Unit). As with other "bunker...
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Collateral Damage Bomb (LCDB), it is a BLU-111 with a smaller explosive charge. Inert ballast is added to match the original weight of the BLU-111, which gives...
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The Mark 84 or BLU-117 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...
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GBU-27 Paveway III (category Guided bombs of the United States)
(Guided Bomb Unit) is a laser-guided bomb with bunker buster capabilities, it is a GBU-24 Paveway III (fitted on the warhead of the BLU-109 bomb body) that...
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targets. The BLU-116 is the same shape, size, and weight (1,927 lb / 874 kg) and twice the penetration as the BLU-109 penetration bomb first deployed...
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GBU-72 (redirect from Guided Bomb Unit‐72)
busting bomb which uses a JDAM guidance kit. The GBU-72 is said to resemble an enlarged GBU-31/B JDAM fitted with a bunker busting BLU-109 or BLU-137/B...
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Bunker buster (redirect from Bunker buster bomb)
a 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) bomb deployed in the Korean War against an underground command center near Kanggye. The BLU-109 bomb is intended to penetrate...
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GBU-28 (redirect from Deep Throat (bomb))
improved BLU-109 variants. By January 1991, as the Persian Gulf War was well underway, it was determined that the BLU-109/B-equipped laser-guided bombs (LGB)...
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and performance. India Indian Air Force BLU-109 bomb - United States "DRDO successfully tests 'glide bombs' in Pokhran". Times of India. 20 August 2016...
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GATOR mine system (category Aerial bombs of the United States)
Kuwaiti battlefield sectors there were 205 BLU-91 and 841 BLU-92 duds. Given that 89,235 BLU-91 and 27,535 BLU-92 mines were used during the Gulf War, this...
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