Finally, there are the trusty cluster bombs, which are identified with the CBU designation. The US military's cluster bombs come in both guided and unguided flavors, and can deliver a wide range ...

The Air Force used it extensively in Iraq. The 1,206 cluster bombs it reported using in Iraq included 818 CBU-103s and eighty-eight CBU-105s. 29 The WCMD can reduce humanitarian harm by ...

Cluster munitions, while controversial, allow the user to eliminate multiple targets with one bomb. A single CBU-105, for instance, could theoretically achieve 40 individual kills against an ...

GBU-10 Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb (2,000 lb) 236 GBU-12 Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb (500 lb) 7,114 GBU-16 Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb (1,000 lb) 1,233 GBU-24 Paveway III Laser-Guided Bomb ...

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites During the nine years of the Vietnam War the US dropped more cluster bombs on neighbouring Laos than it did world wide during ...

Russia and Ukraine are not members of the convention and have both used cluster bombs in their three-year-long war. "Russia uses all the instruments available in a conventional war, and this shows ...

Russia and Ukraine are not members of the convention and have both used cluster bombs in their three-year-long war - Copyright AFP YASUYOSHI CHIBA Russia and Ukraine ...

Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs, citing security concerns over neighbouring ...

Lithuania on Thursday quit an international convention banning cluster bombs citing security concerns over neighbouring Russia, in a move that has drawn criticism from human rights groups ...