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The Type-90, also known as the MZD-2, is a Chinese submunition used in the 122 mm Type-81 cluster rocket.It is made by Norinco.Type-81 rockets with Type-90 submunitions were used by Hezbollah against Israel in the 2006 Lebanon War, [1] and they have been used in the Syrian Civil War as bombs dropped by weaponized Hezbollah quadcopters.
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. Other cluster munitions are designed to destroy runways or electric power transmission lines.
According to the UN Monitoring Mission and Amnesty International, a public human rights organization, an attack by six 220-mm Uragan rockets with cluster warheads on a building where civilians were hiding killed at least 2 adults and 1 child, 1 other child was injured. [14] [4] [23] Shelling of residential areas in Kharkiv on February 25 and 28 ...
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When the Mk 20 bomb cluster is released from the aircraft, the arming wires (primary and/or optional arming) are pulled sufficiently to arm the Mk 339 fuze (and recently the FMU-140 fuze) and release the fins. The positive armed fin release arming wire frees the fin release band, and the movable fins snap open by spring-force.
The 9K720 Iskander (Russian: «Искандер»; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile system. It has a range of 500 kilometres (270 nmi; 310 mi).
Independent experts interviewed by the media stated at the end of March 2022 that there was a lack of data to unequivocally establish the type of incendiary weapons used, [9] [1] [10] and some suspected some incendiary effects were produced by the 9M22S thermite incendiary submunitions fired by the Grad MLRS, which were developed by the Soviets "to discover the minimum size fragment of ...
Cluster rounds may also carry self-targeting anti-tank munitions. The 800 kg standard rocket has a maximum range of 90 km. A range and direction correction system provides better accuracy compared to its predecessors. The 9A52-4 can launch rockets singularly, by a partial ripple or by a full salvo, which can cover an area of 32 hectares.