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cluster bomb

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cluster bomb
n.
A projectile that, when dropped from an aircraft or fired through the air, releases explosive fragments over a wide area.
cluster bomb
n
(Military) a bomb that throws out a number of smaller bombs or antipersonnel projectiles when it explodes
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Noun1.cluster bomb - bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area; "cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely"
bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
bomblet, cluster bomblet - one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb
anti-personnel bomb, antipersonnel bomb, daisy cutter, fragmentation bomb - a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles
Translations
cluster bomb
n → Splitterbombe f


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The Israelis dropped a total of 440 cluster bombs on civilians, 90 percent of them 72 hours before the cease-fire was reached.
An Arab-American agenda for Security, Liberty and Peace by Najjab, Jamal / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Now, if Hezbollah really did all of this, and for the sake of argument I will concede it did all this destruction, then who flew the airplanes over the streets and suburbs of southern Lebanon and dropped all those American-made cluster bombs scattering unexploded bomblets over an area that prevented 800,000 Lebanese civilians from returning to their homes?
"Iran Behind the Veil" by Flangan, Pat / The New American
These actions, which, one has to suspect, were inspired by mischief-making Iranians, led Israel, supported by the United States, into a bull-in-a-china-shop overreaction, complete with indefensible cluster bombs.
More harm than good by Peters, Charles / Washington Monthly
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