MK-20 Rockeye
The MK-20 Rockeye is a free-fall, unguided cluster weapon designed to
kill tanks and armored vehicles. The system consists of a clamshell
dispenser, a mechanical MK-339 timed fuze, and 247 dual-purpose armor-piercing shaped-charge bomblets. The bomblet weighs 1.32
pounds and has a 0.4-pound shaped-charge warhead of high explosives,
which produces up to 250,000 psi at the point of impact, allowing penetration of approximately 7.5 inches of armor. Rockeye is most efficiently used against area targets requiring penetration to kill. Fielded in 1968, the Rockeye dispenser is also used in the Gator air-delivered mine system.
During Desert Storm US Marines
used the weapon extensively, dropping 15,828 of the 27,987 total Rockeyes against armor, artillery, and antipersonnel targets. The remainder
were dropped by Air Force (5,345) and Navy (6,814) aircraft.
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Sources and Resources
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/mk20.htm
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