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BLU-118: Thermobaric explosive warhead filler in a BLU-109 2000-pound hard target penetrator case [e]
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Parent topics
- Explosives [r]: Explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitroglycerin. [e]
- Thermobaric explosives [r]: A member of the class of highly energetic materials and the subclass of volumetric explosives, which appear to release additional combustion energy in addition to the detonation energy of conventional explosives [e]
- BLU-109 [r]: 2000 pound class warhead designed as a hard target penetrator; ballistically identical to Mark 84 bomb, BLU-111, and BLU-126 so can accept Joint Direct Attack Munition and PAVEWAY laser guidance kits [e]
- Hard target penetrator [r]: A bomb or warhead intended to penetrate rock, concrete or armor before exploding [e]
Subtopics
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
- BLU-121 [r]: 2000-pound class thermobaric explosives warhead hard target penetrator, successor to BLU-118 with improved CS-1c steel hardened case allowing bomb to "skip" over ground and a new AFX-757 explosive [e]
- PAVEWAY laser guidance [r]: Four-generation series of U.S. laser-guided bomb guidance kits [e]
- GBU-15 [r]: 2000-pound electro-optical guided bomb with television or imaging infrared, fire-and-forget or man-in-the-loop guidance via AN/AXQ-14 data link; may use Mark 84, BLU-109 or BLU-118 warhead; the AGM-130 is an air-to-surface missile derivative [e]
- GBU-24 [r]: 2000-pound-class laser-guided bomb with U.S. PAVEWAY III guidance [e]
- GBU-31 [r]: Joint Direct Attack Munition that uses a 2000 pound bomb, and has combined inertial guidance refined with the Global Positioning System [e]
- AGM-130 [r]: An air-to-surface missile derived from the GBU-15 guided bomb, using television or imaging infrared electro-optical guidance through an AN/AXQ-14 data link [e]