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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (92500)	4/11/2003 8:00:43 PM
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I'll do some poking around about cluster bombs and get back to you. Here's one thing that popped up just today: Textron's sensor-fused cluster bombs used in war with Iraq boston.com By Jack Hagel, Associated Press, 4/11/2003 15:56 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Earlier this month, Air Force bombers unleashed six sensor-fused cluster bombs on a column of Iraqi tanks headed south out of Baghdad. It was the first time these particular weapons, produced by a Boston-area division of Textron Inc., had been used in combat, officials from the Air Force's Combined Forces Air Component Command said. The bombs, called CBU-105 Wind Corrected Munitions Dispensers, are made by Textron Systems, a Wilmington, Mass.-based subsidiary of Textron that produces precision-guided munitions including the Sensor Fused Weapon, a smart bomb which allows an aircraft to take out several armored vehicles in a single pass.