How To Use Bomblet In A Sentence
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Cluster weapons are highly controversial because they scatter small "bomblets" over a wide area.
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And there are just tiny little bomblets in one bomb, and they spread all over the place.
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Even if the bombers don't directly target civilians, the unexploded bomblets stay on the ground as land mines, and pose a continuing threat to civilians.
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Although different in shape and size, both are yellow in colour and many children pick up the bomblets thinking they contain food.
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One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a bomblet from a cluster bomb.
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There is a significant ‘dud rate’ of about 5% which leaves many unexploded bomblets littering the ground with the potential to explode years later.
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They spray hundreds of bomblets that have only one purpose; to kill and maim people.
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Unexploded cluster bomblets will harm thousands more.
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The bomblets, which looked like pineapples with spidery fins, had all the characteristics of land mines - except that they were sown from the air.
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unexploded bomblets known in Laos as `bombies' caused farmers to fear cultivating their fields
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These metal, seven-inch-long canisters, commonly known as bomblets, were antitank and antipersonnel weapons, and came in efficiently packaged clusters of 202.
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In March, three Kengkhuep boys, ages 10 to 12, picked up a BLU-26 submunition — the most common bomblet in Laos — and tried to crack it open.
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Although different in shape and size, both are yellow in colour and many children pick up the bomblets thinking they contain food.
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After they are dropped, they open up in the air and disperse bomblets by parachute.
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They say one in every five bombs, bomblets, and artillery shells doesn't go off, and lies in wait, sometimes years, for the unwary or unlucky.
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The projectile launcher fired bomblets that would stun anyone within twenty or thirty meters of the point of impact.
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Small bomblets containing liquid sarin, a deadly nerve agent, were uncovered as recently as 2000.
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Cluster bombs are softball-size and they explode into several hundred "bomblets" that spread 100 yards before they hit the ground, explained Bennis.
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A global positioning system would improve the rockets 'accuracy to contain bomblets to target areas.
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The cluster bomblets are still killing innocent civilians.
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This definition includes "all explosive ordnance designed to explode at some point in time after dispersal or release from the parent cluster munition, as well as munitions that are sometimes referred to as bomblets (e.g. from air-dropped cluster munitions), grenades (e.g. from ground-launched artillery, rocket or missile systems) and 'improved conventional munitions'." end of a conflict, and are more lethal than antipersonnel mines as they are more likely to cause death than injury when they explode.
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Many of the so-called bomblets they contain do not explode immediately and pose a danger to civilians long after fighting ends.
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For example, to protest cluster bombs, which kill children who find the bomblets, they staged a bomblet hunt near the last White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Cluster bombs also produce problematic after-effects because many of the bomblets do not explode on impact as intended.
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Bomblet (also called submunition or grenade): A small explosive packed inside cluster bombs and cluster munitions.
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Cluster bombs contain as many as 200 smaller bomblets and up to 30% of these fail to explode on impact but, like landmines, remain deadly for many years.
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Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomblet from a cluster bomb.
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In its defence of their use, MoD officials have argued that they were "direct fire" weapons - in other words a pilot firing them can see the target - and that a single weapon had fewer than 10 "bomblets".
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The Multiple Launch Rocket Systems weapon, which fires hundreds of bomblets, is likely to be in reserve.
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Intended primarily as anti-personnel weapons, cluster bombs open up in mid-air to release dozens of individual devices, known as bomblets, which scatter across a wide area.
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The buried bomblets claim a new victim every 22 minutes - that's 24,000 casualties a year.
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Once again, we are distributing bright yellow food packets into areas where we are also dropping bright yellow cluster bomblets.
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The weapon can be configured to carry one of two types of warheads at a time: a 1,000-pound blast/fragmentary unitary warhead, and a general-purpose submunition dispenser with combined-effect bomblets.
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The CBU-105 (CBU stands for cluster bomb unit) carries 40 "skeet" bomblets.
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And these are nasty bombs - made up of several hundred bomblets, which themselves are made up of many pellets.
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Each contains 202 bomblets that are scattered by explosion.
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We are calling on the British Government to commit to clearing up unexploded ordnance, including the cluster bomblets that have been left behind.
