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CBU-78/B Gator

Container the puma with anti-personnel and antitank mines. Weight 223 kg. Contains 45 pieces of submunitions BLU-91/B and 15 ks BLU-92/B in the container SUU-58/B (design for the USAF) or in container Mk.7 (design for USN and USMC).

Dispensor – container - Mk.7 Rockeye is produced for a number of years and in large numbers. It is cheap and proven. The mines cover, depends on the height of the spreading submunitions. You can of course vote. During operation Desert Storm aircraft Navy and Marine Corps shodily 209 pcs of these bombs.

Dimensions:
length: 215,9 cm
diameter: 33 cm.
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Versions
 Container
 Timer lighter
 Submunitions
CBU-78/B
Mk.7 or SUU-58/B
 Mk.339 Mod 1
 BLU-91/B (45 pieces) and BLU-92/B (15 pieces)
CBU-78A/B
 SUU-58/B
 Mk.339 Mod 1
 BLU-91/B (45 pieces) and BLU-92/B (15 pieces)
CBU-78B/B
 SUU-58/B
 FMU-140/B
 BLU-91/B (45 pieces) and BLU-92/B (15 pieces)



Sources
1) Aviation Ordinanceman 1 - Aviation theories and other practices, US DoD
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Počty pum CBU-78/B shozených během operace Pouštní bouře.
Verze
Cena jedné pumy [$]
(v cenách roku 1990)
 Počet shozených pum
 Cena všech shozených pum [$]
(v cenách roku 1990)
CBU-78/B
 39 963
 209*
 8 352 267

* i když CBU-78/B byla zavedena do služby u USAF, USN a USMC, všechny pumy použité během operace Pouštní bouře měly být shozeny z letadel USN a USMC



Zdroje
1) Kolektiv autorů: Operation Desert Storm - Evaluation of the Air Campaign, Washington DC, 1997
2) http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/cbu-78.htm
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