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rockeye

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rockeye [′räk‚ī]
(ordnance)
A free-fall cluster bomb designed for use against tanks and armored vehicles with antipersonnel secondary effects.


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general-purpose bombs, incendiary and Rockeye II duster bombs, Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs, infrared countermeasure flares, electronic countermeasure chaff and jammer pods.
Its firepower can include an array of smart weapons such as guid ed bomb units (GBU), and conventional weapons such as Rockeye, MK 82 or MK 83 bombs and Sidewinder and Maverick missiles.
He found that problem weapons included several submunitions of US and UK manufacture, including the BLU-97, Rockeyes, BLU-61, and Blue-63 (the latter two vintage weapons designed in the 1960s, but still used in the Gulf War).
 
 
 
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