![]() Each bomblet weighs only a few pounds, and may be designed to fragment for anti-personnel use, to detonate armor-piercing shaped charge warheads for use against vehicles, or carry an incendiary payload designed to start fires. They are released by dispensers built into a larger cargo munition. ![]() The mini-bombs in cluster munition are known as submunitions, bomblets, or grenades. The lineage of modern cluster weapons can be traced back to various aerial gravity bombs employed in World War II by Germany, Italy, Russia, and the United States against both battlefield and civilian targets. That said, it’s true that wealthier militaries have been able to phase out use of cluster weapons by relying instead on more expensive precision guided weapons. ![]() And reportedly, White House analysts believe that they would be a boost to Ukraine’s military. While some critics of cluster weapons argue that they are of “limited military utility”, that view is often not held by actual operators of these weapons.
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