CBU-100 Cluster Bomb

The Mk 20 Rockeye II, CBU-99 Rockeye II, and CBU-100 Rockeye II comprise an American cluster bomb family which are employed primarily in an anti-tank mode against armored vehicles.

They are an air-launched, conventional free-fall, explosively opened, submunition dispensing, cluster bomb. They deploy 247 Mk 118 Rockeye submunitions, a HEAT bomblet, and weigh 489 lb (222 kg) as an assembled unit.

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