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MK 80 Bomb Series

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The MK 80 are a series of US-developed, air-delivered low-drag general purpose (LDGP) high explosive fragmentation (HE-frag) bombs, which provided fragmentation, blast and cratering effects upon detonation. The MK 80 series of LDGP bombs were developed between the late 1940s to the early 1950s by the US Navy (USN) for use by all of the US Armed Forces. The MK 80 series replacing many previous high-drag models then in use. The MK 80 series i...

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