Mk.82

Mk.82

Mk.82 is a puma type LDGP-Low Drag General Purpose. Universally applicable, with the low resistance of air. By this means against the diverse objectives and with a large range. (Ballistic curve is relatively flat.) It has a slim, aerodynamically clean body. Unlike the bombs of the type HDGP-High Drag General Purpose. For those aerodynamic resistance after odhozu from the carrier intentionally dramatically increase. HD bombs used in the attacks, from very small heights. There avoiding at least partly the radars and the interceptors of air defense. The accuracy of the interference is, of course, for these free-falling unguided bombs in shozech from small heights the greater. Puma due to the large resistance of the air to dramatically slow down and will allow to move away the aircraft from the place of its explosion without him to threaten the střepinami..
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The numbers of bombs of the Mk.82 shozených during the operation Desert storm.
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Price of one-the bomb [$]
(in prices of 1990)

the Number of shozených bombs
Price of all shozených bombs [$]
(in prices of 1990)

Mk.82
498
69 701
34 711 098


Resources
1) Team of authors: Operation Desert Storm - Evaluation of the Air Campaign, Washington DC, 1997
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