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This is a list of cluster bombs as of 2008. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Brazil. BLG-120; BLG-204; BLG-252; France
The CBU-98/B (also known as a Direct Airfield Attack Combined Munition or DAACM) [1] was a planned 385 kg (850 lb) anti-airfield cluster bomb, which consisted of 8 BLU-106/B BKEP (Boosted Kinetic Energy Penetrator) projectiles and 24 British HB876 mines in an SUU-64/B Tactical Munitions Dispenser (TMD). The BLU-106/B was cancelled, and thus the ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1940 and 1949. During this period 78 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Rights groups and observers say Russia is using cluster bombs in its invasion of Ukraine, a charge Moscow denies. If confirmed, deployment of the weapon, especially in crowded civilian areas ...
On Tuesday, defense and aerospace conglomerate Textron won an enormous $640.8 million contract modification, which expanded upon an existing firm-fixed-price contract to supply 1,300 cluster bombs ...
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. Because cluster bombs release many small bomblets over a wide area, they pose risks to civilians both during attacks and afterwards.
During Operation Desert Storm, the US Air Force dropped 10,035 CBU-87s.During Operation Allied Force, the US dropped about 1,100 cluster bombs, mostly CBU-87s.. On 7 May 1999, a CBU-87 was used in one of the most serious incidents involving civilian deaths and cluster bombs, the Niš cluster bombing.
The last large-scale American use of cluster bombs was during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to the Pentagon. But U.S. forces considered them a key weapon during the invasion of Afghanistan ...