Paveway IV
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Paveway IV is a dual mode GPS/INS and laser-guided bomb manufactured by Raytheon UK. It is the latest iteration of the Paveway series.
A Paveway IV laser-guided bomb fitted to a Harrier GR9.
A Paveway IV laser-guided bomb is released from an F-35 Lightning II during trials in the United States.
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
Paveway IV
…the Paveway series. The weapon is a guidance kit based on the existing Enhanced Paveway II Enhanced Computer Control Group (ECCG) added to a modified Mk 82 general-purpose bomb with increased penetration performance. The new ECCG contains a Height of Burst (HOB) sensor enabling air burst fusing options…
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.