Cluster bombs | AFP

Cluster munitions are munitions consisting of a projectile known as a parent munition that transports several hundred bomblets designed to be dispersed over a wide area the size of several football pitches VIDEOGRAPHIC

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[TehRasia]

u need to give a raise to your 3d designer, that was some incredible footage

[Dragon-Slayr]

While we play russain games they deploy a tiny poop bomb into my car through the sunroof 😂

[anthonytrevino]

If Russia is using them I don’t see the fault of US

[thegreatarchive-a]

Both sides have been using them in the past 17 months, none of the countries involved have promised to not use them, and they're being used on Ukraine's own soil. It's amazing how well Russian propaganda works to convince people supplying these munitions for self defense is an unacceptable course of action.

[jouleSansLoi]

I sure don't want to be a child in Eastern Ukraine born after 2023....

[sherwinrosenbloom]

Ukraine has been asking for them for months to use within their own country. Must be a good reason. Their soil. Imagine if we had to use them here in the US due to the status of a conflict on our soil. Would have to be a great need. Yes? Their battle grounds are littered with millions of mines that will have to be cleared in any case. They are running out of 155 rounds. It is their choice.

[SanjitT]

Imagine being bought and giving these to a country during a time of war. And imagine that child thatll pick these up in 2045.

[SallyTon-Ramage]

the united kingdom has not agreed to stopping cluster munitions see this 2007 ARTICLE :-
UK has not ratified the Protocol

CLUSTER MUNITIONS ISSUE
By
Sally Ramage


The hot issue of the day is cluster munitions and the indiscriminate damage that they cause. So let’s discuss cluster munitions for a moment and when we understand the crux of the issue, we must activate ourselves to spread awareness of the subject and lobby Parliament to ratify the cluster munitions Protocol which the UK government signed but has not yet ratified. We must act urgently because this cluster munitions Protocol, even though signed by many countries, cannot become binding international law until it is ratified by all the countries that signed this Protocol V.

What’s this Protocol all about, then? Protocol V makes a country responsible for clearing all explosive remnants of war in territory under its control and to provide warnings, risk education and other measures to protect civilian populations. If the UK uses weapons that leave behind explosive remnants, as cluster munitions do, the UK must provide assistance for clearance, even if the territory in question is not under UK control.

What does this all mean and how does it affect the UK government?
Well, we manufacture cluster munitions in this country and we use it in other countries and we sell it to other countries. Who knows if our own manufactured cluster munitions have not killed some of our own soldiers?

Why should the UK government be ashamed of itself for not yet ratifying this Protocol V?

Because to date many other countries have ratified the Protocol- in fact, the countries showing willing in this respect are Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Holy See, India, Ireland, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan and Ukraine, but not the United Kingdom (nor the United States for that matter!)

Why else are we disgraced by not yet ratifying this Protocol?

Because there are remnants of cluster munitions still around the world, putting people at risk of losing their limbs. “World War 2” cluster munitions’ remnants were found in Russia, Belarus, Chile, and the Eritrean/Ethopian border, Kenya, Namibia, Serbia and Montenegro.The UK Armed Forces say they do keep records of munitions used during combat operations and that their data is available to all! Really? The UK is known to have used L20A1 munitions which contain 49 sub-munitions, equipped with self-destruct mechanism, yet, unexploded L20A1 were found in some post-conflict environments.

Also, the UK, together with the Royal Army of Oman and its other allies Jordan and Iran, used cluster munitions in the Dhofar region between 1964 and 1975 during an internal conflict between the Government of Oman and the Communist Separatist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (PFLO). We are ashamed and rightly so.
Please let’s do something about it as we think about related dreadful facts-
90% of casualties of cluster munitions in Iraq were men and boys, 94% in Lebanon, 88% in Afghanistan, 86% in Cambodia, 87% in Chad and 70% in Guinea Bassau. This tells us that the innocent who are maimed by cluster munitions are men, children and women.
ENDS

[TVCHLORD]

to the ruzzian bots in all the cluster bombs videos : ruzzia has been using cluster bombs since the beginning of the russian invasion of ukraine, now ukraine is going to return the favor to the ruzzists

[Mark-AnthonyJ]

Yay!!!! Bringing a great future to the world!!!

[zikunyu]

So don’t give to Ukrainian…let Russia use it one sided?

[aajbak]

Lets have peace guys, don’t destroy Mother Earth 🌎

[kyronwalsh]

Banned for good reason but brought back for Ukraine? Such hypocrisy… and they must be getting desperate if they’re gonna start using these!

[amymcphee]

I wonder what politician has shares in them

[wolfgangsanwald]

Ñapalmbombs would be much better .Greetings fromm Vietnam.

[A_B_C]

Stupid video doesn't explain anything properly.

Imagine if other countries used it (Africa, Asia, Middle East countries)

USA would have gone mad about it.But now no one, no country talking about it.

[sameerkulkarni]

US Cluster Bombs - Target Practice for the Red Army....

[dtsai]

If you don’t want to send or use cluster weapons, you better start building massive numbers of smart artillery shells. Get them chips!

[ИльяМуромец-еш]

Каждое действие вызывает противодействие. Самое логичное - РФ в ответ начнёт применять свои «кассеты» массово и открыто. Учитывая, что США анонсировали на весь мир, что передают Украине, никто РФ не обвинит в этом.

Теперь давайте посчитаем: у кого больше таких боеприпасов, их видов и возможностей их применения?

Просто пример номенклатуры 500кг бомб, оснащенных «кассетными» боеприпасами на вооружении РФ:  РБК-500 ЗАБ-2, 5М, РБК-500 АО-2, 5РТ, РБК-500У и РБК-500 ПТАБ-1М, РБК-500 ШОАБ 0, 5м и т.д.

В бомбе 500 кг взрывчатого вещества почти в 100 раз больше, чем в 155 мм снаряде. А русские к бомбам приделывают крылья и закидывают с расстояния.

Т.е. мало того, что на каждый передачей США снаряд, ВС РФ сможет использовать 10 своих, так они ещё и мощнее.

Вот такая математика..

[hyphydan]

Nuclear Bombs aren't that bad either. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are large bustling cites today.