Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser

Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD)
Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD)
Type	Bomb guidance kit
Place of origin	United States of America
Service history
Used by	See Users
Production history
Variants	See Variants
Specifications
Guidance; system	Inertial guidance/GPS

The Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser or WCMD system is a US tail kit produced by Lockheed Martin for use with the Tactical Munitions Dispenser family of cluster bombs to convert them to precision-guided munitions. In 1997 the United States Air Force 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.^[1]

When fitted with the WCMD the CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition, GBU-89 GATOR and the CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon are respectively known as the CBU-103, CBU-104 and the CBU-105; the latter anti-armor weapon was deployed but not used during Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War, and fired in combat during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.