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bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area
cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely
How To Use cluster bomb In A Sentence
- For it was the development of the cluster bomb systems and other conventional submunition systems that made it less necessary for the US to continue fielding tactical nuclear shells and short range missile systems. The Volokh Conspiracy » Landmines and the Obama Administration
- By now, the police were chasing protesters into various neighbourhoods, and throwing cluster bombs of rubber pellets at locals.
- The bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing.
- The planes were reported to have used cluster bombs and also to have strafed roads and buildings.
- A couple of nights ago they were using cluster bombs to bomb some area.
- One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a bomblet from a cluster bomb.
- Yet there is a danger that the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions will puncture all his talk of humanitarian action.
- Why can't their free media catch on its eagle eyed lens the raining cluster bombs, the showering napalms, and the tortures in the dungeons? Archive 2005-04-01
- Meanwhile, the prime stocks of precision munitions have been drawn down, and speculation about the future use of cluster bombs and napalm and other vile weapons is being heard.
- The MoD had to spend ￡20m upgrading and ordering extra stocks of the cluster bombs for the Kosovo campaign.
