World's Deadliest Conventional Weapons

A U.S. Air Force AC-130U 'Spooky' gunship turboprop drops flares in flight.

AP

An AC-130H 'Spectre' gunship deploys anti-missile flares near Hurlburt Field, Fla.

U.S. Air Force

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet drops a GBU-28 'Bunker Buster' bomb.

AP

A 'bunker buster' test in three frames: approach, impact and detonation.

Dept. of Defense

A Texas Instruments Bolt-117 laser-guided bomb on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

U.S. Air Force

A U.S. Army soldier test-fires a .50-caliber M-82 Barret sniper rifle at Forward Operating Base McHenry near Kirkuk, Iraq in March 2005.

U.S. Army

A Canadian Forces MacMillan Tac-50 at the Calgary Stampede in July 2006. The same model set the world record for longest kill in Afghanistan.

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A Yugoslav soldier aims a .50-caliber sniper rifle in 2001.

AP

Detonation of an M18A1 anti-personnel mine in South Korea.

U.S. Army

Defused anti-personnel land mines.

AP