Last week the U.S. Air Force announced successful tests of the BLU-136 Next Generation Area Attack Weapon, a 2,000-pound munition to replace its controversial cluster bombs. The new weapon aims to ...

However, reports of one weapon in particular has struck fear into even the most hardened military and explosives experts: cluster bombs ... etched onto the circular fuse and, being an avid ...

When Bashar Assad attacks his own people with cluster munitions, enterprising Syrian rebels don't just run for cover ... digs up the bomb and disarms it by unscrewing the fuse – which isn ...

The Biden administration announced Friday that a new weapons package for Ukraine will include cluster bombs — a controversial type of weapon the U.S. has not provided to the country before.

Ukrainian authorities are warning of a new type of cluster bomb dropped ... Finally, some bombs were dropped with no timer, just the anti-tamper fuse, so they would remain in place until someone ...

The first cluster bomb was the Sprengbombe ... This was attached to an arming spindle and a fuse. These closed ‘bomblets’ were then packed into bomb-shaped containers which would be released ...

First developed during World War II, cluster bombs contain a number of smaller bomblets designed to cover a large area and deter an advancing army. Campaigners have hailed the treaty as the most ...

A global treaty which bans the production and use of cluster bombs has come into force ... which are designed to cover a large area and deter an advancing army. But campaigners have long argued ...

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