Enhanced cluster missiles represented a step up from the cluster missile weapons platform, featuring greater explosive power. These missiles could be launched in volleys of six.
Following the obliteration of the Echo Base shield generator, Luke, having eliminated a snowtrooper and taken control of the snowtrooper's tripod weapon to repel Imperial troops, unleashed fire upon an AT-ST container, resulting in its destruction. Subsequently, he retrieved the cache of enhanced cluster missiles that had been housed within the ruined container.
During Rogue Squadron's covert entry and subsequent freeing of the Maw Imperial Detention Center, Rogue Leader Wedge Antilles, piloting his BTL Y-wing starfighter, released a series of proton bombs onto an environmental dome, after which he acquired a quantity of enhanced cluster missiles from the resulting debris.