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CBU-100 Cluster Bomb

The Mk 20 Rockeye II, CBU-99 Rockeye II, and CBU-100 Rockeye II comprise an American cluster bomb family which are employed primarily in an anti-tank mode against armored vehicles.

They are an air-launched, conventional free-fall, explosively opened, submunition dispensing, cluster bomb.[1] They deploy 247 Mk 118 Rockeye submunitions, a HEAT bomblet, and weigh 489 lb (222 kg) as an assembled unit.

Mk 20 Rockeye II, consists of 247 Mk 118 Mod 1 or Mod 2 anti-tank bomblets in an Mk 7 dispenser, with the dispenser ranging from Mk 7 Mod 2 to Mod 12[5]

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Potential future users[edit]

In March 2023 Ukraine requested Mk 20 Rockeye II cluster bombs from the US to use the Mk 118 Rockeye bomblets as drone dropped munitions.[9]