HOF 105 103

IF i drop my CBU 105 at a HOF of 200ft, nothing seems to happen, if I drop my CBU 103 from the same altitude with the same HOF,, I get a result, considering they are both guided bombs, why does the 105 seem not to function, thanks in advance.

They are completely different bombs - in the difference lies the answer:

103 deploys 202 mini-bomblets already armed so the HOF will just affect the dispersal area. The 105 on the other hand deploys 10 sub-munitions, who then each deploy a chute to arrest their fall in a predetermined time to ensure spacing and so on and so on........All takes a fair amount of time. If you program the 105 munition to start it's process at 200ft, all the sub-munitions will slam into the ground before they even had a chance to do what they are supposed to do.

Becuase at 300ft the BLU-108s donot have enough altitude to function, and just hit the terrain before they can spin up and release the skeets.

The CBU-87/103 BLUs are not smart and as long as the CBU cannister can actually open the bomblets will detonate on impact. Although 300ft is a very, very small HOF for an 87/103 and not very effective.

Thankyou for the replies, just one more quick question, if you dropped a 105 into the vicinity of a tank, a parked helicopter, and a tent, would all three be targeted by the sub munitions or just the tank?

In-SIM just the tank I would have thought. IRL, skeets have a fragmentation ring to defeat soft targets and their ancillary equipment as well.

While these German soldiers in Afghanistan obviously have a very different and urgent problem, this is what happens when you set the HOF wrong (Artillery, but...):

http://www.vidup.de/v/UQL6X/

At the beginning, they are understandably furious about the strike.

At 0:30, after the cease fire-call, the radio guy learns that there are still two rounds in the air - hence the "Runter!" (Get down")-order.

These eventually impact in the vincity of a G36-fireteam.

And the gag at the end of the video (1:02 and following) does only work in German, as far as I can think of. Here's my try to explain it

Basically, the guy says "We have a Durchfaller. This means the round had a wrong HOF and "fell through".

But Durchfall happens to be the German term for dysentery, which explains the answer "Ich hab hier auch gleich Durchfall" - I'll get dysentery here, as well..."

Training footage, by the way.

Someone made a mistake.

And the 102/105 probably will producs duds instead of a heap of smoke, I think.

Super-