

Other cluster munitions are designed to destroy runways or electric power transmission lines.īecause cluster bombs release many small bomblets over a wide area, they pose risks to civilians both during attacks and afterwards.

Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles.

cluster munition, Vietnam War A cluster bomb is dropped at the Nightmare Range in South KoreaĪ cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Honest John missile warhead cutaway around 1960, showing M134 bomblets filled with Sarin Half of a surface-to-air missile site in North Vietnam blanketed in exploding bomblets dispersed by a U.S.
