RAPIDS Series 4: Clusters

This glide bomb uses a GPS/INS seeker configuration to attack fixed and relocatable soft targets such as parked aircraft, trucks, armored personnel carriers and surface-to-air missile sites. It uses BLU-97 combined-effects bomblets to strike area targets. What is the name of this weapon?

• AGM-154A  Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW-C)

• AGM 114 Hellfire Romeo

• TLAM-C

• CBU 78 USN GATOR

This glide weapon uses 145 BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb (CEB) submunitions. These bomblets have a shaped charge for armor defeating capability, a fragmenting case for material destruction, and a zirconium ring for incendiary effects. It can range 12-70 NM depending on altitude and is ideal for SEAD missions (RADARs, POL, Aircraft on Ground) where the air threat is high. What is the name of this weapon?

• CBU 100 ROCKEYE

• AGM 154A JSOW

• AGM 86 CALCM

• CBU 107 WCMD

You are tasked with preparing a SEAD strike against multiple aircraft on the ground at an enemy airbase. While enemy air defenses are manageable, the Commander is not willing to accept high risk missions and instructs maximum use of standoff weapons. What would be a recommended weapon for the strike?

• GBU 24 PAVEWAY II

• CBU 78 CEM

• AGM 154A JSOW

• AGM 114 Hellfire

This 500lbs air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines cluster bomb dispenses a 650 m x 200 m wide minefield of 432 anti-tank mines and 132 anti-personnel mines. They're used for area denial, diversion of moving ground forces, or to immobilize targets to supplement other direct attack weapons. What is the name of this weapon?

• CBU 107 WCMD

• TLAM D

• CBU 97 SFW

• CBU 78 USN GATOR

This 1,000-pound, Combined Effects Munition (CEM) is used for attacking soft target areas with detonating bomblets. It is designed to be dropped from an aircraft at any altitude and any air speed. It is a free-falling bomb and relies on the aircraft to aim it before it drops. What is the name of this weapon?

• CBU 87 CEM

• CBU 107 WCMD

• AGM 154A JSOW

• CBU 97 SFW

True or False:

This CBU 87 CEM is a guided 1,000lbs weapon ideal for precision strikes on hard targets

• True

• False

This Air Force version of the CBU-78 USN GATOR is a 450-kilogram (1,000 lb) cluster munition containing 72 antitank and 22 antipersonnel mines. It is ideal for area denial and striking soft targets. What is the name of this weapon?

• CBU 78 USAF GATOR

• CBU 89 USAF GATOR

• CBU 87 CEM

• TLAM D

This USAF 1,000-pound freefall cluster bomb contains 10 BLU 108 submunitions. Each submunition contains four hockey-puck-shaped sensor-fused projectiles called Skeets. These skeets use laser and infrared to detect target vehicles, such as tanks, APCs, trucks and other support vehicles, and fire an explosively-formed penetrator downwards at them. What is the name of this weapon?

• CBU 78 USN GATOR

• CBU 99 ROCKEYE

• CBU 97 SFW

• CBU 89 USAF GATOR

These submunitions on the CBU 97 SFW fires an explosively-formed penetrator to destroy a target once acquired. If a the submunition fails to find a target, it self-destructs 50 feet (15 m) above the ground; if this fails, a back-up timer disables the it. These features are intended to avoid later civilian casualties from unexploded munitions, and result in an unexploded-ordnance rate of less than 1%. What is the name of this submunition?

• BLU 109 Penetrator

• BLU 129 / B

• BLU 108 (SKEET)

• MK118 ROCKEYE

You are tasked with weaponeering a strike against an enemy armor formation. The proximity of the target to civilian areas is causing concern for potential unexploded ordinance post-strike. What would be the benefits of recommending the CBU 97 SFW pictured above?

• submunitions contain a self destruct / disable timer if a target is not located resulting in an unexploded-ordnance rate of less than 1%

• submunitions identify targets and have a low CEP

• The BLU 108 submunition drives deep into the ground if it misses its target

• The BLU 108 submunition drives deep into the ground with GPS trackers for easy location by EOD teams