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issued contracts to complete development and begin production of the WCMD, planning to modify 40,000 tactical munitions dispensers - 30,000 for CEM and 5,000 each for Gator and SFW - at a cost of US$ 8,937 per unit.
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are respectively known as the CBU-103, CBU-104 and the CBU-105; the latter anti-armor weapon was deployed but not used during
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The WCMD-ER program was cancelled in August 2006 due to poor test results and budgetary pressures.
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Range: Wing kit extends range to 40–65 km (30–40 miles).
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for use with the Tactical Munitions Dispenser family of
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Index

Users
See Variants
Inertial guidance
GPS
Lockheed Martin
cluster bombs
precision-guided munitions
United States Air Force
CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition
GBU-89 GATOR
CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
Operation Allied Force
2003 invasion of Iraq
INS
GPS
CEP
CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition
GBU-89 GATOR
CBU-107 Passive Attack Weapon
"Wind Corrected Munition Dispenser (WCMD) - Smart Weapons"
"Lockheed Martin WCMD (Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser) - Designation Systems"
"USAF terminates WCMD-ER contract"
WCMD-ER - Deagel
Wind Corrected Munition Dispenser (WCMD)
Categories
Guided bombs of the United States
Cluster munitions
Military equipment introduced in the 1990s

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