All in One Weapons QRL (Quick Reference List)
Max Range
Nomenclature
miles
AIM 120
25
a/c
launch and leave / Radar guided
AIM 7
15
a/c
must maintain lock / Radar guided
AIM 9 M
10
a/c
all aspect IR SRM
AIM 9 P
8
a/c
rear aspect IR SRM
LAU-3 Rocket Pod
2
19 per pod
soft and unhardened targets
AGM 154 JSOW
40+
CEM
soft and armored targets
AGM 65/A
11
125 lb.
tanks and SAM installations / Daylight Only
AGM 65/B
15
125 lb.
tanks and SAM installations / Daylight Only
AGM 65/D
17
125 lb.
tanks and SAM installations / all weather
AGM 65/G
17
300 lb.
ships and hardened targets / all weather
AGM 88
30+
radar equip air defense systems (SAMS)
BLU 107
anti runway
BSU 49
500 lb.
GP Mk82 for High speed Low Alt drop
BSU 50
2000 lb.
GP Mk84 for High speed Low Alt drop
CBU 52
766 lb.
anti-personnel and soft vehicles
CBU 58
800 lb.
anti-personnel and soft vehicles
CBU 71
800 lb.
area denial, anti-personnel and soft vehicles
CBU 87
1000 lb.
armored, anti-personnel and material
CBU 97
1000 lb.
tanks and armored vehicles
GBU 10
2000 lb.
GP Mk84 with laser guidance
GBU 10 I
2000 lb.
BLU 109 with laser guidance / penetrateor
GBU 12
500 lb.
GP Mk82 with laser guidance
GBU 24
2000 lb.
hardened target / low level high speed drop
GBU 31
2000 lb.
GP Mk84 with GPS/INS guidance
GBU 32
1000 lb.
GP Mk83 with GPS/INS guidance
GBU 34
2000 lb.
BLU 109 with GPS/INS guidance
GBU 35
1000 lb.
BLU 110 with GPS/INS guidance
Mk 20
tanks and armored vehicles / cluster weapon
Mk 82
500 lb.
bridges, installations, SAMS, tanks, and AAA
Mk 83
1000 lb.
bridges, installations, SAMS, tanks, and AAA
Mk 84
2000 lb.
bridges, installations, SAMS, tanks, and AAA
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Air to Air Ordnance
AIM-120 AMRAAM Slammer
Range:
25~30 miles under optimal conditions
(from a high altitude launch against a high-speed non-
maneuvering target)
Guidance:
Radar
Target:
Aircraft
AMRAAM is a supersonic, air launched, aerial intercept, guided
missile employing active radar target tracking, proportional navigation guidance, and active Radio
Frequency (RF) target detection. It employs active, semi-active, and inertial navigational methods
of guidance to provide an autonomous launch and leave capability against single and multiple
targets in all environments.
AIM-9 Sidewinder
Guidance:
IR
Range:
8+ miles depending on altitude and aspect
Target:
Aircraft
The missile's main components are an infrared homing guidance section, an
active optical target detector, a high-explosive warhead, and a rocket motor.
The infrared guidance head enables the missile to home on target aircraft
engine exhaust. An infrared unit costs less than other types of guidance systems, and can be used
in day/night and electronic countermeasures conditions. The infrared seeker also permits the pilot
to launch the missile, then leave the area or take evasive action while the missile guides itself to
the target.
Variants
AIM-9M - The M model has improved defense against infrared countermeasures, enhanced background
discrimination capability, and a reduced-smoke rocket motor. This model has all aspect IR capability.
AIM-9P – Less sophisticated than the M variant, the P model must have rear aspect lock on the target. The
P Model is not as maneuverable as the M model.
AIM-7 Sparrow
Range:
15
Guidance:
Semi-Active
Radar
Target:
Aircraft
The AIM-7 Sparrow is a radar-guided, air-to-air missile with a
high-explosive warhead. The AIM/RIM-7 series is a semiactive,
air-to-air, boost-glide mis sile, designed to be either rail or ejection
launched. Semiactive, continuous wave, homing radar, and hydraulically-operated control surfaces
direct and stabilize the missile on a proportional navigational course to the target. The AIM-7
semi-active guidance system requires that the aircraft it is fired from must continue to paint the
target with radar until impact.
Air to Ground Ordnance
LAU-3
Rocket Launcher
Range:
2 miles
Guidance:
balistic
Target:
Mobile soft, fixed soft, and unhardened buildings
Launchers convey and provide a suitable platform from which rockets are
carried and launched. The LAU-3 series Rocket Launcher contains 19 2.75 in
rockets. The launcher can be fired in single (one at a time) or ripple (one after
the other in multiple shots) mode. In ripple mode, the LAU-3 can fire 19
rounds in about one second. There are no service life requirements on the launcher.
AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon [JSOW]
Range:
12 nm (24km) Low altitude launch (unpowered)
40 nm (64 km) High altitude launch (unpowered)
->120 nm (200 km) Powered
Guidance:
GPS/INS
Target:
Mobile soft, fixed soft, and armored targets
The warhead of the AGM -154A consists of 145 BLU-97/B
submunitions. Each bomblet is designed for multi-target in one payload. The bomblets have a shaped
charge for armor defeat capability, a fragmenting case for material destruction, and a zirconium ring for
incendiary effects.
AGM-65 Maverick
Range:
17+ miles (12 nautical miles/27 km)
Guidance:
see variants information below
Target:
see variants information below
The AGM -65 Maverick is a tactical, air-to-surface guided missile
designed for close air support, interdiction and defense suppression
missions. It provides stand-off capability and high probability of strike
against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses,
ships, transportation equipment and fuel storage facilities. Maverick was used during Operation Desert
Storm and, according to the Air Force, hit 85 percent of its targets.
Variants
Maverick A is armed with a 125lb. Warhead and guided by the most basic TV imaging. This is a daylight only weapon,
ideal for tanks. Smoke and/or haze will interfere with image tracking
Maverick B is armed with a 125lb. Warhead and guided by TV imaging without IR capabilities. The B model is basically
an upgrade from the A model. It has improved optics and targeting. But this is still only a daylight only weapon, ideal for
tanks. Smoke and/or haze will still interfere with image tracking
Maverick D is armed with a 125lb. Warhead and guided by IR imaging. This allows for all weather and nighttime
operations. The superior imaging allows for magnification which enables locking on from greater distances. The smaller
warhead makes this an ideal night time tank strike, small vehicle, and soft target weapon
Maverick G is armed with a 300lb. HE Warhead and guided by IR imaging. This allows for all weather and nighttime
operations. The large warhead makes the G model ideal for hardened targets and large vehicles such as ships.
AGM-88 HARM
Range:
30 plus miles (48 plus kilometers)
Guidance:
passive RF acquisition
Target:
Radar-equip Air Defense Systems
The AGM -88 HARM (high-speed
antiradiation missile) is a supersonic air-to-
surface tactical missile designed to seek and
destroy enemy radar-equipped air defense systems. The AGM -88 can detect, attack and destroy a target
with minimum aircrew input. Guidance is provided through reception of signals emitted from a ground-
based threat radar. It has the capability of discriminating a single target from a number of emitters in the
environment. The proportional guidance system that homes in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed
antenna and seeker head in the missile nose. A smokeless, solid-propellant, dual-thrust rocket motor
propels the missile. The Navy and Marine Corps F/A-18 and EA -6B have the capability to employ the
AGM -88. With the retirement of the F-4, the F-16C is the only aircraft in the current Air Force inventory to
use the AGM -88. The B version has an improved guidance section which incorporates an improved tactical
software and electronically reprogrammable memory.
BLU-107 Durandal
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
Anti-Runway
Once the parachute-retarded low-level drop bomb attains a
nose-down attitude, it fires a rocket booster that penetrates the
runway surface, and a delayed explosion buckles a portion of
the runway. It can penetrate up to 40 centimeters of concrete,
creating a 200 square meter crater causing damage more
difficult to repair than the crater of a general-purpose bomb.
BSU-49
High Drag General Purpose High Explosive
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
bridges, unhardened buildings, electronic
installations, tanks, armored personnel carriers, SAMs,
and AAA
a MK-82 (500lb Low Drag General Purpose (LDGP)
bomb.) modified by attaching a BSU-49 AIR tail assembly.
The tail assembly provides a high speed, low altitude
delivery capability due to increasing the bomb trail. Additionally, bomb ricocheting or broaching is
less likely due to increased impact angles. The high drag delivery can provide better weapon
effects due to impact angle and reduced likelihood of casing break-up.
BSU-50 (HDGP)
High Drag General Purpose High
Explosive
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
wide variety of targets, including artillery, trucks,
bunkers, Scuds, surface-to-air missile sites, antiaircraft artillery
sites, early warning radars, and supply points
is a MK-84 2,000 pound bomb modified with a BSU-50/B high
drag tail assembly. The "ballute" air bag which deploys from the
tail provides a high speed, low altitude delivery capability by quickly slowing the bomb and allowing the
aircraft to escape the blast pattern. The tail assembly consists of a low-drag canister unit containing a
ballute (combination balloon and parachute), and a release lanyard assembly that opens the canister
releasing the ballute.
CBU-52 B/B
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
anti-personnel
and soft skinned vehicles
The CBU-52, loaded with 220 antimaterial, antipersonnel bomblets, weighs 785 pounds and can be used
with a variety of proximity fuses or the mechanical MK-339 timed fuse. The submunition is a 3.5-inch
spherical bomblet weighing 2.7 pounds with a 0.65-pound high-explosive warhead.
CBU-58 A/B
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
soft skinned vehicles and anti-personnel
The CBU-58 is loaded with 650 bomblets. These bomblets contain 5-gram titanium pellets, making them
incendiary and useful against flammable targets.
CBU-71 /B
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
used for area denial soft skinned vehicles and anti-personnel
The CBU-71/B is very similar to the CBU-58, carrying 650 baseball-
sized bomblets. However, the CBU-71 submunitions have a random
delay fuzing option making this cluster weapon great for area denial
against soft - skinned targets (light or no armor).
CBU-87 CEM
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
armor, anti-personnel and material
The CBU-87 is a 1,000-pound, Combined Effects Munitions
(CEM) for attacking soft target areas with detonating bomblets.
The BLU-97 is effective against armor, personnel and material,
containing a shaped charge, scored steel casing and zirconium ring for anti-armor, fragmentation and
incendiary capability.
CBU-97 SWF
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
tanks and armored vehicles
After release, a fuse causes the dispenser to disperse
the 10 submunitions, each stabilized by a parachute.
At a preset altitude a rocket fires, propelling the
submunition in an upward vector. As the
submunition climbs, it is spun to disperse the 4 internal skeet warheads randomly by centrifugal force. An
IR sensor in each warhead searches for a target, and upon discovery detonates over it, firing a kinetic
fragment. The fragment drives itself through the lightly armored top of the target. If no target is found, the
sensor detonates the warhead above ground to spray the battle field with a myriad of lethal fragments.
GBU-10
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
Mobile hard, fixed soft,
fixed hard
The GBU-10 consists of an MK-84
2,000 pound bomb with an added
laser guidance package The operator illuminates the target with a laser designator, and the munition is then
guided to the illuminated area reflected by the target
Variants
GBU 10 I
The GBU-1O I mates a BLU-109B weapon with a Paveway II laser guidance kit. This
improved 2,000-pound bomb is used against targets requiring deeper penetration.
GBU-12
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
Mobile hard, fixed soft, fixed hard
The GBU-12 consists of an MK-82 500 pound bomb with an added laser guidance package The operator
illuminates a target with a laser designator and then the munition guides to a spot of laser energy reflected
from the target.
GBU-24
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
Mobile hard, fixed soft, fixed hard
The Guided Bomb Unit-24 (GBU-24) Low Level
Laser Guided Bomb consists of either a 2,000-
pound MK-84 or the BLU-109. The weapon is
designed for low altitude delivery and with a capability for improved standoff ranges to reduce exposure.
The GBU-24 LLLGB/Paveway III has low-level, standoff capability of more than 10 nautical miles.
Performance envelopes for all modes of delivery are improved because the larger wings of the GBU-24
increases maneuverability. Paveway III also has increased seeker sensitivity and a larger field of regard..
GBU-31 (JDAM)
Range:
Greater than 5 nautical
miles, up to 15 miles
Guidance: GPS/INS (autonomous)
Target:
Mobile hard, mobile soft,
fixed hard, fixed soft, maritime
surface
JDAM is not intended to replace any existing weapon system; rather, it is to provide accurate delivery of
general purpose bombs in adverse weather conditions. The JDAM will upgrade the existing inventory of
Mk-83 1,000- and Mk-84 2,000-pound general purpose unitary bombs and the 2,000-pound hard target
penetrator bomb by integrating a guidance kit consisting of an inertial navigation system/global positioning
system guidance kit. The 1,000-pound variant of JDAM is designated the GBU-31
JDAM Variants:
GBU-31: 2,000lb Mk-84 warhead
GBU-32: 1,000lb Mk-83 warhead
GBU-34: 2,000lb BLU-109 warhead
GBU-35: 1,000lb BLU-110 warhead
MK-20
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
tanks and armored vehicles
Rockeye is most efficiently used against area targets requiring penetration to kill. The MK-20 Rockeye is a
free-fall, unguided cluster weapon designed to kill tanks and armored vehicles..
MK-82
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
bridges, unhardened buildings, electronic
installations, tanks, armored personnel carriers, SAMs, and
AAA
The MK-82 is a free-fall, nonguided general purpose [GP] 500-
pound bomb. The MK 80 series Low Drag General Purpose
(LDGP) bombs are used in the majority of bombing operations
where maximum blast and explosive effects are desired.
MK-83
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
bridges, unhardened buildings, electronic
installations, tanks, armored personnel carriers, SAMs, and
AAA
The MK-83 is a free-fall, nonguided general purpose [GP] 1,000-
pound bomb. The MK 80 series Low Drag General Purpose
(LDGP) bombs are used in the majority of bombing operations where maximum blast and explosive effects
are desired.
MK-84
Range:
freefall
Guidance:
ballistic
Target:
bridges, unhardened buildings, electronic installations,
tanks, armored personnel carriers, SAMs, and AAA
The MK-84 is a free-fall, nonguided general purpose [GP] 2,000-pound
bomb. The MK 80 series Low Drag General Purpose (LDGP) bombs
are used in the majority of bombing operations where maximum blast
and explosive effects are desired.