Mark 82 bomb
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The Mark 82 is a 500-pound unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb, part of the United States Mark 80 series. The explosive filling is usually tritonal, though other compositions have sometimes been u
U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom II of VF-111 Sundowners deploying Mark 82 bombs over Vietnam, 1971.
Museum-based inert Mark 82 bomb with a Snake Eye Tail Retarding Device – displaying deployed high-drag tail-fin for low-altitude release.
A B-2 Spirit dropping Mk82 bombs into the Pacific Ocean in a 1994 training exercise off Point Mugu, California.
Naval aviation ordnanceman installing arming wire on the nose fuze of a Mark 82 500-pound bomb.
GBU-12 Paveway II
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The GBU-12 Paveway II is an American aerial laser-guided bomb, based on the Mk 82 500 lb general-purpose bomb, but with the addition of a nose-mounted laser seeker and fins for guidance. A member of t
Mark 82 bomb
…Tritonal high explosive. The Mk82 is offered with a variety of fin kits, fuzes, and retarders for different purposes. The Mk82 is the warhead for the GBU-12 laser-guided bombs and for the GBU-38 JDAM. Over many years Nitro-Chem in Bydgoszcz, Poland was the only provider of certified TNT for U.S. Department…
U.S. Navy crewmen loading GBU-12s onto an F-14