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The CBU-24 (
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-c.html#_CBU Once dropped from the delivery aircraft, the CBU-24 casing breaks open in-flight and releases the individual submunitions, scattering them over a large area. Each submunition is designed to
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-b.html#_BLU26 The BLU-36 submunition has a random time-delay fuse and will detonate at some point after impact.
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-b.html#_BLU36 The time-delay function of the submunitions is designed to continue to deny the area to the enemy for some time after the initial attack and hamper clean up and casualty recovery operations. While primarily designed as an anti-personnel weapon, the bomblets can also damage structures and soft vehicle targets within the target area.
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Technical analysis of cluster munitions
Cluster munition Aerial bombs of the United States {{Bomb-stub
The CBU-24 (Cluster Bomb
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicl ...
Unit-24) is an unguided, aircraft delivered anti-personnel
An anti-personnel weapon is a weapon primarily used to maim or kill infantry and other personnel not behind armor, as opposed to attacking structures or vehicles, or hunting game. The development of defensive fortification and combat vehicles ga ...
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.
The CBU-24 cluster bomb consists of a SUU-30 dispenser unit containing a payload of 665 tennis ball
A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis. Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow in organised competitions, but in recreational play can be virtually any color. Tennis balls are covered in a fibrous felt which modifies their aerodyna ...
-sized BLU-26 or BLU-36 fragmentation submunitions, also known as bomblets.http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-c.html#_CBU Once dropped from the delivery aircraft, the CBU-24 casing breaks open in-flight and releases the individual submunitions, scattering them over a large area. Each submunition is designed to
detonate
Detonation () is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. Detonations propagate supersonically through shock waves with s ...
and damage or destroy targets within the weapon's footprint by explosion, concussion and fragmentation effects. While most BLU-26 submunitions explode on impact, they can also be set for air-burst or fixed-period delayed detonation.http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-b.html#_BLU26 The BLU-36 submunition has a random time-delay fuse and will detonate at some point after impact.
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/asetds/u-b.html#_BLU36 The time-delay function of the submunitions is designed to continue to deny the area to the enemy for some time after the initial attack and hamper clean up and casualty recovery operations. While primarily designed as an anti-personnel weapon, the bomblets can also damage structures and soft vehicle targets within the target area.
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Designation Systems
Technical analysis of cluster munitions
Cluster munition Aerial bombs of the United States {{Bomb-stub