Laser-guided bombs like the Paveway share the GBU designation (guided-bomb unit) with GPS-guided munitions ... Finally, there are the trusty cluster bombs, which are identified with the CBU ...

cluster bomb unit CBU-52/71, combined effects munitions, and mine dispensing munitions.” Despite the A-10’s noteworthy capabilities, the platform was never built for carrier landings.

Lithuania on Thursday (March 6, 2025) quit an international convention banning cluster bombs, citing security concerns over ...

Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana — Laser-Guided Bomb Units, commonly referred to as ... be dropped from the bomb bay of the jet using a cluster bomb rack system, but the method raised safety ...

They proved particularly hazardous to bomb disposal units and curious children ... In October 1940, Ipswich became the victim of the first cluster bomb attack in history. It’s not known how ...

Canisters found on the ground were labelled BLU-114/B (BLU being a standard military acronym for "bomb live unit"). The fact that they had not ... The BLU-114/B is a form of cluster bomb. That is, it ...

It does not make these cluster bombs precision-guided munitions but ... The request includes, for the first time, production of some units of the extended range WCMD (WCMD-ER) variety, which ...

Neither Russia nor Ukraine are parties to the international treaty outlawing the use of cluster munitions – bombs which explode mid-air and scatter miniature explosives, sometimes hundreds of ...

UKRAINE has confirmed a huge Russian missile strike on a training base which reportedly killed nearly 40 soldiers and left ...

In Laos, where the United States dropped a vast amount of cluster bombs during the Vietnam War, unexploded bomblets left behind continue to main and kill nearly half a century after the war ended.

Vilnius (AFP) – Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs, citing security concerns over neighbouring Russia in a move that has drawn criticism from human ...