Cluster bomb

These smaller explosives also called sub-munitions or bomblets spread over a wider area. Rights groups have called on Russia to stop using cluster munitions in Ukraine saying fatal strikes using the indiscriminate weapons on a hospital and a school could constitute war crimes.

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A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions.

. 1 day agoCluster bombs can be designed to explode on impact or remain on the ground for a period of time before detonating. Cluster bombs can be delivered by planes artillery and missiles according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Anybody within the strike area of the cluster munition be they military or civilian.

Commonly this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. 21 hours agoCluster bombs or cluster munitions are a type of explosive that contain many other smaller explosives. 1 day agoCluster munitions have been used in deadly Russian attacks on Kharkiv an eastern Ukrainian city with the third-largest population in the country Human Rights Watch told the Washington Post on.

They can deny areas as any advancing forces will not know if munitions left on the. 13 hours agoCluster bombs are weapons that open in the air releasing submunitions or bomblets that are dispersed over a large area intended to wreak destruction on multiple targets at once. 1 day agoCluster bombs.

February 28 2022 535 AM. Cluster munitions are dropped from aircraft or fired from the ground or sea opening up in mid-air to release tens or hundreds of submunitions which can saturate an area up to the size of several football fields. A cluster munition or cluster bomb is a weapon containing multiple explosive submunitions.

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