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Old June 26th, 2006, 01:49 AM

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Default Re: Stand-off cluster \"bombs\"?

Last night on the Discovery Channel there was a segment on the CBU-97 Sensor Fused Weapon. This thing is devastating! Once the weapon is dropped (as far as 10 miles from the target) it breaks up into four bomblets which deploy over the target area. They then break up and each drops out 10 submunitions which have sensors which can detect vehicles. The submunitions then home in on the targets. If they do not find a target they self-destruct. Basically one aircraft can destroy 30-40 targets!
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