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MK 62 Quick Strike deployed from a P-3 Orion. MK65 Quickstrike The Quickstrike [102] is a family of shallow-water aircraft-laid mines used by the United States, primarily against surface craft. The MK65 is a 910 kg (2,000 lb) dedicated, purpose-built mine. However, other Quickstrike versions (MK62, MK63, and MK64) are converted general-purpose ...
Mark 62 Quickstrike mine – A naval mine, which is a conversion of the Mark 82 bomb. [ 21 ] Mark 82 Mod 7 – Near-term solution for cluster bomb replacement that replaces the forged steel casing with a unitary "cast ductile iron" warhead and reconfigured burst height and fuze locations, dispersing iron fragmentation over a large area to ...
An inert JDAM Quickstrike Extended Range mine is attached to a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress. In September 2014, the U.S. Air Force performed the first-ever drop of a precision-guided aerial sea mine, consisting of a Quickstrike mine equipped with a JDAM kit. The Quickstrike is a Mark 80-series general-purpose bomb with the fuze replaced ...
MK 84 were used by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, [12] Iraq War and Afghanistan War and bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, [13] and by Israel in the 2014 Gaza War and Gaza War. [14] [15] According to a forensic investigation by Human Rights Watch, MK 84 bombs were also in the Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war. [16]
The Mk 83/BLU-110 is used as the warhead for a variety of precision-guided weapons, including the GBU-16 Paveway laser-guided bombs, the GBU-32 JDAM and Quickstrike sea mines. The Mk 83 is also used as the warhead in a variety of Pakistani smart bombs made by GIDS.
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The Mark 60 CAPTOR (Encapsulated Torpedo) is the United States' only deep-water anti-submarine naval mine. [4] [3] [2] It uses a Mark 46 torpedo [2] [3] contained in an aluminum shell that is anchored to the ocean floor. [2] The mine can be placed by either aircraft, submarine or surface vessel.