The CBU-24 (Cluster Bomb Unit-24) is an unguided, aircraft delivered anti-personnel and anti-materiel weapon developed by the United States. Because it is an unguided weapon, the CBU-24 can be carried and dropped by any aircraft capable of carrying standard "dumb" or "iron" bombs.

Aug 31, 2016 · CBU-24 cluster bombs loaded on an F-105 Wild Weasel aircraft. Because each submunition is relatively small, the individual bomblets do not have a lot of explosive power. For this reason, fragmentation cluster bombs are primarily useful against soft (unarmored) targets.

Feb 28, 2012 · BLU-24/B bomblets are small, cast iron submunitions about the size of a baseball. They are spin-armed, and spin-decay fired; essentially, they arm when they spin fast enough, and detonate when they cease rotating at high speed (i.e. hit something).

The CBU mean cluster bomb unit - the number denotes its contents. The '24' has 665 spherical bomblets each with arced flutes to cause it to spin during freefall.

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The CBU-24/B is an anti-personnel, anti-material cluster bomb consisting of an SUU-30 launcher containing 650 BLU-26/B "Guava" bomblets, each about the size of a tennis ball.

Weapons: CBU-24/B CB [665 x BLU-26/B Guava Bomblets] - (SUU-30/B, replaced by CBU-58) Bomb Surface Max: 1.9 km. Land Max: 1.9 km.

GBU-24 Paveway III or simply GBU-24 is a family of laser-guided bombs, a sub-group of the larger Raytheon Paveway III family of weapons. The Paveway guidance package consists of a seeker package attached to the nose of the weapon, and a wing kit attached to the rear to provide stability and greater range.

The CBU-24 (Cluster Bomb Unit-24) is an unguided, aircraft delivered anti-personnel and anti-materiel weapon developed by the United States. Because it is an unguided weapon, the CBU-24 can be carried and dropped by any aircraft capable of carrying standard "dumb" or "iron" bombs.

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