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	RAF - Cluster Bombs
		The BL755 bomb dispenses its bomblets into the airflow shortly after the weapon leaves the aircraft, and on impact with the ground, or a target, the bomblets detonate, producing a high-velocity plasma jet that can penetrate armour up to 250mm thick.
		Both the BL755 and the IBL755 bombs are delivered from low-level attacks.
		RBL755 is a modification of the original BL755 to give the cluster bomb an anti-armour capability from a medium-level attack.
	www.raf.mod.uk /equipment/clusterbombs.cfm (254 words)

	[No title]
		The BL755 bomb and BL755 submunition were developed and are manufactured by Hunting Engineering Limited, Ampthill, Bedford, England, United Kingdom.
		The BL755 submunition is a dual mode, anti-personnel/anti-vehicle type with both a shaped charge (High Explosive Anti-Tank) and a shrapnel effect.
		It is known that the BL755 has been sold to at least 12 nations and additional sales on the heels of several recent major British aircraft sales are projected.
	www.forecastinternational.com /archive/or/vm0078.doc (1186 words)

	BL755 Cluster Munition: 19 Jul 2006: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Information on the failure rate of the BL755 cluster bomb used by the RAF is collected during regular in-service surveillance trials.
		The results of these trials are used to confirm the reliability of the BL755 cluster bomb for operational use.
		Some analysis of the accuracy and performance of BL755 cluster bombs used during operations has been undertaken; however, the reliability of individual weapons was not specifically addressed as part of this analysis.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2006-07-19a.83981.h (292 words)

	Kosovo - a Wasteland Called Peace
		BL755 Cluster Bomb: The BL755 dual purpose cluster bomb is a product of the UK arms company Hunting Engineering of Ampthill, Bedford who boast that the weapon is "devastating over a wide area".
		The bomblet is designed to explode on impact causing a combined anti-armour and anti-personnel effect, the latter consisting of a fragmentation blast containing in excess of 2000 metal fragments.
		Despite official denials it is widely accepted by experts that the BL755 has a probable design failure rate due to malfunctions as high as 5% which would increase substantially due to incorrect delivery.
	www.icbl.org /resources/raejune99.html (2905 words)

	BL755
		The BL755 looks like a standard 1,000 lb (450 kg) store but with a hard "saddle" on the spine for ejector release and crutching pad loads and a distinctive large Turbine-like air arming vane on the nose.
		The four rear fins are very squared off in appearance, but on closer inspection can be seen to be hollow and telescopic.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/bl/BL755.htm (404 words)

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		The RAF’s inventory of cluster bombs look like normal bombs when attached to the aircraft, but when they are released they break open in the airflow and release 147 ‘bomblets’ into the target area.
		The BL755 bomb dispenses its bomblets into the airflow shortly after the weapon leaves the aircraft, and on reaching their target they produce a plasma jet that can burn a hole through armour.
		RBL755 is a modification of the original BL755 to give the weapon an anti-armour capability when released from a medium-level attack.
	home.planet.nl /~alder010/Design/Armament/BL755.html (179 words)

	RAF - Brimstone
		MoD wanted a weapon that could operate in all weathers, day and night, be effective against the future predicted Explosive Reactive Armour arrays and be a genuine ‘fire-and-forget’ weapon.
		Brimstone will replace the BL755 cluster bombs in the anti-armour role.
		After a strong competition between four rival projects, a contract was let with MBDA in 1996.
	www.raf.mod.uk /equipment/brimstone.cfm (331 words)

	'Threads'
		There was a single pylon under the fuselage that was used for carrying one BL755.
		I want to remember the pylons as not being terribly thick and it ‘might’ just be that the TSC is needed to stick the two pyro-carts and rams into.
		BL.755 is fairly small as cluster weapons go.
	www.ipmscanada.com /threads/th02-cf104.html (906 words)

	Royal Air Force
		The BL755 Cluster Bomb is carried by offensive support and attack aircraft.
		When the BL755 is dropped, the primary strike is armed.
		After a set interval the initial cartridge is fired, which produces the gas pressure to blow off the two-part body skins and then fires the main cartridge.
	www.bunkertours.co.uk /royal_air_force.htm (365 words)

	TICKING TIME BOMBS
		The British BL755 air-delivered cluster bomb is carried by all active Royal Air Force and Royal Navy attack aircraft, most notably the Harrier, Jaguar, and Tornado.
		The BL755 cluster bomb was originally designed for low-altitude delivery only, and in the Gulf war proved ineffective for medium-altitude strikes.
		This variant of the BL755 has been used by NATO in Operation Allied Force in Yugoslavia.
	hrw.org /reports/1999/nato2/nato995-04.htm (1130 words)

	TICKING TIME BOMBS
		The British BL755 air-delivered cluster bomb is carried by all active Royal Air Force and Royal Navy attack aircraft, most notably the Harrier, Jaguar, and Tornado.
		The BL755 cluster bomb was originally designed for low-altitude delivery only, and in the Gulf war proved ineffective for medium-altitude strikes.
		This variant of the BL755 has been used by NATO in Operation Allied Force in Yugoslavia.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/nato2/nato995-04.htm (1130 words)

	UNHCR - Ticking Time Bombs: NATO's Use of Cluster Munitions in Yugoslavia
		The baseball-like remnants are from older CBU-52/58/71 cluster bombs and the ground artillery- and rocket-delivered bomblets.
		The distinct shapes and colors of cluster bomb submunitions have posed particular hazards in Iraq and Kuwait, but even so, these live submunitions have been far less detectable than large unexploded bombs, particularly as they were covered by shifting sand or pools of water.
		A modified “R” variant of the BL755, called the RBL755, was developed after the Gulf war to provide medium-altitude operations.
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6a82fc.html (6829 words)

	Cluster Munitions: 17 Mar 2006: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the failure rate of cluster munition BL755; and if he will end its use by UK forces.
		The RAF currently operates two variants of the BL755 cluster bomb.
		The original BL755 and the Radar BL755 (RBL755).
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2006-03-17a.58611.h (142 words)

	INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER-PALESTINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He further commented that with such an enormous number of unexploded ordnance, the failure rate is bound to be much higher than claimed by the Israeli manufacturers.
		The British army have used the BL755 cluster bombs for 30 years, is said to have a %10 failure rate, double that claimed by its manufacturers.
		Hoon admitted in the parliament that 66 cluster bombs were dropped by the British Air Forces in Iraq, which is far less than those used by ground units.
	www.ipc.gov.ps /ipc_e/ipc_e-1/Iraq-news/2003/April/news013.html (340 words)

	Hunting (R)BL-755
		The BL755 submunition dispensing cluster bomb is manufactured by Hunting Engineering of Ampthill, Bedford, UK and has been in service with the RAF for over 27 years.
		Although due to be replaced in the anti-armour role by Brimstone, it still remains a formidable area attack and denial weapon.
		Please read the disclaimer for more information and contact the webmasters with any queries.
	www.eurofighter-typhoon.co.uk /common/AG/bl755.html (565 words)

	Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums - Question regarding the BL755 and Briitish 1000 lb iron bomb
		One reference indicated that the BL755 body is based on the 1000 lb bomb, which suggests it's about 2.5m.
		I would have thought that the BL755 would have been the shorter weapon but I assume the 1000 lb iron bomb is more dense (casing, etc) despite being nearly a half meter shorter than the BL755.
		The UK 1000 lb bomb and the BL755 are completely different and un-related weapons intended for different purposes.
	forum.keypublishing.co.uk /showthread.php?t=53230 (489 words)

	Hebweb Forum: Battlefield Litter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not satisfied with poisoning Iraq with depleted uranium, letting its National Museum be looted, we and the US are leaving Iraq one vast minefield through our use of cluster munitions.
		For example, the BL755, the standard British cluster bomb contains 147 bomblets that can be dispersed over an area the size of a football pitch, or more - the US has bigger bombs that function over a wider area.
		In the case of the British BL755 cluster bomb, Hoon, the defence secretary, would like you to believe that the failure rate is 5%.
	www.hebdenbridge.co.uk /forum/messages3/41.html (650 words)

	Britain to ban some cluster bombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He points out that the role of British forces there is not just about "creating security", defence officials said yesterday.
		They say the two bombs now banned are the RAF's BL755 weapon, which was used extensively in Kosovo in 1999 and later Iraq, and the cluster weapon intended for the army's new multiple rocket launcher, the M26.
		Military advisers have told Mr Browne that their withdrawal will involve a "very small but acceptable risk" to British troops.
	www.smh.com.au /handheld/articles/2007/03/19/1174152969983.html (559 words)

	ITV - John Pilger - Morality, don't make me laugh
		Mostly unreported, the Americans are using a refined version of the depleted uranium missile they tested in southern Iraq, where leukaemia among children and birth deformities have risen to match the levels after Hiroshima.
		The RAF is using the BL755 'multi-purpose' cluster bomb, which is not really a bomb at all but an air-dropped land-mine: readers will recall the Blair government's 'ban' on land-mines.
		Dropped from the air, the BL755 explodes into dozens of little mines, shaped liked spiders.
	www.johnpilger.com /page.asp?partid=203 (854 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - Ashamed to be a Canadian, Micheal Bliss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mostly unreported, the Americans are using a refined version of the depleted-uranium missile they tested in southern Iraq, where leukaemia among children and birth deformities have risen to the level of Hiroshima.
		The Royal Air Force is using the BL755 "multi purpose" cluster bomb, which is not really a bomb at all, but an air-dropped land-mine - readers will recall the Blair Government's "ban" on land-mines.
		Dropped from the air, the BL755 explodes into dozens of little mines, shaped liked spiders.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/html/pilger.html (885 words)

	The SEPECAT Jaguar
		Oddly the British, despite their enthusiasm for the Jaguar, were slow in comparison to the French to qualify precision-guided munitions on the type.
		It is interesting to wonder if the RAF and AdA Jaguar pilots are inclined to certain cameraderie, in contrast to the sense of irritation, not always subtle, between the two countries over a joint development program that did not work as well as might have been hoped.
		Weapons carriage was also generally similar to that of British Jaguars, with several customers buying the BL755 cluster bomb as a prominent store.
	www.vectorsite.net /avjag.html (7304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A consignment of the 600lb bombs - which contain 147 "bomblets" designed to scatter over an area as large as a football pitch - was flown in last week to the Gioia del Colle base near Bari in southern Italy, where 12 British GR7 Harriers from 1(F) Squadron are deployed.
		The BL755 bombs have specially shaped charges which can penetrate the armour of military vehicles.
		Their broad use against troop and tank formations will also heighten the risk of civilian casualties.
	www.geocities.com /kem_jj/hrcluster.html (430 words)

	Thomson-Thorn proposes MMW package for UK-28/02/1996-Flight International
		THOMSON-THORN IS proposing to package three millimetre-wave (MMW) radar-guided rocket-boosted sub-munitions in a Hunting BL755 cluster-bomb casing in its bid for the £800 million Royal Air Force air-launched anti-armour weapon.
		In the direct-attack mode, the motor is dispensed with immediately after release from the BL755 dispenser.
		The BL755 is already cleared on the Panavia Tornado and British Aerospace Harrier, and would only need to be qualified on the Eurofighter EF2000.
	www.flightglobal.com /articles/1996/02/28/17815/thomson-thorn-proposes-mmw-package-for-uk.html (432 words)

	CAAT Publications - INSYS (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hunting Engineering manufactured the BL755 cluster weapon from the 1960s to mid-1980s and now INSYS is contracted by the Royal Air Force to test the safety and serviceability of existing stocks of cluster weapons.
		Each BL755 comprises a main dispenser body and 147 submunitions with fragmenting warheads.
		The failure rate of the submunitions is the subject of debate with the MoD reporting a rate of 6%.
	www.caat.org.uk /publications/companies/insys.php (438 words)

	Product Recall - WHAT ARE CLUSTER MUNITIONS?
		Anybody within that area, be they military or civilian, is likely to be torn apart.
		For example, each of the UK’s BL755 cluster munitions contains 147 submunitions designed to disable tanks and to kill people.
		Each submunition contains explosives, a copper cone, a prestressed fragmentation sheath and an incendiary sponge.
	www.spreadingourvalues.com /clustermunitions (140 words)

	Palestine Chronicle - Israeli Cluster Munitions Used in Iraq War
		Lloyd suggested that the failure was bound to be higher than the rate claimed by the Israeli manufacturers.
		The BL755 cluster bomb, used by the British air force for more than 30 years, is said to have a failure rate nearer 10 per cent, double that claimed.
		Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has admitted to parliament that the air force used 66 cluster bombs in Iraq but insisted that they were only used "against large troop concentrations, armour and artillery in the open."
	www.palestinechronicle.com /story-20030425231537382.htm (362 words)

	Cluster Bombs
		Cluster munitions, like the UK manufactured BL755, have killed and injured thousands of people because they don't work as they are supposed to.
		Cluster munitions are indiscriminate, particularly when used near populated areas.
		In February 2005 the UK stated that its "air dropped cluster bombs (like the BL755) have a failure rate that is unacceptably high".
	www.landmines.org.uk /471.php (198 words)

	DhafirTrial » Arming the World
		Beneath the Union Jack a BL755 ‘multi-purpose’ British cluster bomb gleamed in the soft backlight, like the latest showroom Jaguar or an exhibit at the Ideal Home Exhibition.
		The BL755 is not really a bomb at all, but an ‘area denial sub-munition’, a land mine in all but name.
		It is dropped from the air and explodes into forty-seven little mines, which are shaped like spiders.
	www.dhafirtrial.net /?p=524 (881 words)

	View topic - BL755? :: F-16.net :: The Ultimate F-16 Reference
		In all my years I have never seen this loadout on a Viper.
		I did find on my Stores List card that the jet is cleared to carry the BL755 Mk 2 on STA 3/4/6/7, either singley on MAUs or in threes on TERs (CAT III).
		I was surprised, especially since I had never seen them hung on a Viper before.
	www.f-16.net /index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=7909 (599 words)

	Armed Forces - Royal Air Force - r8a3 - RAF Weapons - Short-Range-Air-to-Surface Weapons - BL755 Cluster Bomb - CVR-7 - ...
		Armed Forces - Royal Air Force - r8a3 - RAF Weapons - Short-Range-Air-to-Surface Weapons - BL755 Cluster Bomb - CVR-7 - 1,000 High Explosive Bomb - Paveway ll - Paveway lll - Paveway IV - Maverick
		Short-range air-to-surface weapons - BL755 CLUSTER BOMB, CVR-7, 1,000LB HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB, PAVEWAY II, PAVEWAY III, PAVEWAY IV, MAVERICK
		PAVEWAY II The BL 755 is a system that was designed to cope with some of the very large area targets that might have been encountered on the Central Front, especially large Warsaw Pact armoured formations of Regimental strength (90+ tanks) or more.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /raf/listings/l0038.html (1043 words)

	Harrier GR-7 Walk Around
		Harrier GR-7 loaded with 1000lb and BL755 cluster bombs
		Harrier GR-7 loaded with BL755 cluster bombs, AIM-9L sidewinders and a TIALD pod
		Photos 6,7,8 were taken just after the cease fire and show mission markings applied to the jets.
	www.aircraftresourcecenter.com /AWA1/401-500/walk405_Harrier/walk405.htm (111 words)

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