The first cluster bomb was the Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2kg (SD2), known as the 'butterfly bomb', a particularly nasty type of anti-personnel cluster bomb developed by the German Luftwaffe.

Cluster bombs are anti-personnel weapons that eject multiple smaller bomblets over a large area. They can be very effective, and Russia has used them against Ukrainians from the start of the war.

The U.S is going to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions—bombs or shells that release a hail of mini-bombs over a ... Each rocket can spray out 24-30 9M27K bomblets or 312 anti-personnel mines.

They were anti-personnel submunition: chopped-steel shards that sprayed out in timed detonation over a wide arc. ... But unexploded cluster bombs are widely viewed as being especially dangerous.

Biden Mulls Cluster Bombs for Ukraine as Reports Emerge of Kyiv’s Use of Banned Landmines. ... Ukraine is a signatory to the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which comprehensively bans anti-personnel mines.

Progressive Democrats' opposition to sending cluster bombs to Ukraine is welcome. Their arguments apply to much of the military aid the U.S. is sending the country.

The formerly Soviet-ruled Baltic state of 2.8 million people has also signalled its intention to leave another international treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel land mines.

Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and other eastern European countries are eyeing an exit of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines to prevent Russia from invading.

Without cluster munitions and anti-personnel landmines, concludes another RUSI paper, European armed forces “risk lacking both the required lethality to fight effectively, and the ability to ...

The first cluster bomb was the Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2kg (SD2), known as the 'butterfly bomb', a particularly nasty type of anti-personnel cluster bomb developed by the German Luftwaffe.