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 ...

They're cheap, effective, and devastating. But they're also unpredictable, long-lasting, and lethal to civilians, especially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Traditionally, cluster bombs can cover a large area but do not have precision guidance. Dropped from medium to high altitudes, they can wander off target. There is a significant "dud rate" of about 5% ...

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 ...

We have new data on the toll of cluster munitions. That's a kind of bomb that scatters dozens of ... And the report doesn't cover the use of the U.S. cluster munitions in Ukraine.

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 ...