BLU-107 Durandal Anti-Runway Weapon

Named for a mythical medieval French sword, the Durandal is a bomb developed by the French company Matra (now MBDA France, a branch of EADS), designed to destroy airport and airfield runways.

Designed to be dropped from low altitudes, the bomb's fall is slowed by a parachute. When the bomb is vertical due to the parachute's drag, it fires a rocket booster that accelerates it into the runway surface. The bomb explodes after it has penetrated the surface. This results in a crater that is large and difficult to repair, worse than a bomb of comparable warhead size. The rocket can penetrate up to 40 centimeters of concrete, and creates a crater 5 meters deep and approximately 16 meters in diameter.

Durandals weigh 204 kg (450 lb) and are 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long. The warhead is made of 150 kg (330 lb) of high explosives.

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• BLU-107
• Durandal
• Anti-Runway
• Weapon
• Matra
• USAF

[Cnupoc]

@oiseautempete O_o i never said anything about the french copying of a plane.... and tbh wtf is your problem :D

[oiseautempete]

@Cnupoc

Nope, French never copy russian junk (and the Exocet was what for a soviet copy?= ridiculous), but YOU copy some French technology, like the French/British Concorde: the French secret service arrest some russian spys, 80% from the concorde plans was stolen, but the 20% rest was WERY important, so the Tupolev fail...

[bingofioul]

@Cnupoc :o) ok i'll admit we copied this bomb if you admit that you copied the concorde... just kiding, i don't give a fuck about who copied...the only thing we (russian, european and US) should worry about is china copying our stuff (SU27, T-50 etc...)

[Cnupoc]

@bingofioul Russian engineers always claim that their stuff has no analogy in the world :D

No, seriously, i just said it's a copy because i am familiar with the BetAB bombs not the NATO counterparts.

[bingofioul]

@Cnupoc why should russian people always claim about nato country copying there stuff ???

[bingofioul]

@flamedrag18 it's a 1977 weapon, almost 23000 were produced, 8000 for USAF, is was used intensivly during Gulf WAR 1991, of course you can do the same damage with another weapon, but not for 30000US $...

[kappapisigma1]

@DrDigital1974 video is from "war in the gulf: air assault" (1991)

[ShadowVip3r]

I transported a static Blu-107 Durandal last week for an aircraft display. Cool looking bomb. Of course the one I had had cut-away windows so you could see the contents. I would love to see one actually explode.

[flamedrag18]

well, these were phased out after bunker busters were developed, since you can basically do the same or much more with a more flexible weapon system.

[bestamerica]

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loook at this video on 022,,,

it is a gray monster face