A 50-year-old man was killed in an explosion caused by a cluster submunition in Kharkiv Oblast's village of Ivanivka near Izium, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on March 22. Ukrainian forces ...

Ukrainians are now breaking down some of the U.S.-made cluster munition artillery shells they've recently received to repurpose the submunition bomblets they carry as improvised weapons to be ...

TRW Inc. is being awarded a sole-source contract to test the Brilliant Anti-Armor (BAT) Submunition on a Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle, according to a contract announcement. The company will be ...

The advanced trials of Pinaka I, a complete multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) system, were successfully carried out for the 'submunition warheads' here at Pokhran field firing range in Rajasthan on ...

Lynn Bradach lives in Portland, Ore. More than half the world’s nations are meeting in Oslo on Wednesday to sign a global treaty banning cluster bombs. Although my government won’t be there, I will. I ...

Cluster munitions, or cluster bombs, are large weapons that open in mid-air and scatter widely smaller submunitions, which usually number in the dozens or hundreds. Cluster munitions can be launched ...

May 12, 2025: In 2024 Ukraine used HIMARS missiles equipped with cluster munitions. Each 300 kg missile contains 644 submunitions. When a submunition explodes, it will wound or kill anyone within ...

The Joint Munitions Command is continuously pursuing efforts to reduce the demilitarization stockpile to promote readiness, safety and efficiency. Munitions items that cannot be demilitarized using ...

September 13, 2013: Saudi Arabia has joined South Korea, India, Oman, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates as purchasers of CBU-105 sensor fuzed weapons. Average cost is over $700,000 each of these ...

The U.S. Air Force's Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab (UAVB) soon will begin test-dropping the BLU-108 anti-armor submunition from a Sentry HP unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), according to Lt. Col.

Twenty-four feet long and weighing 8,400 pounds, Iskander is carried and launched from an 8×8 armored vehicle. Iskander can carry a munition payload of 1,000 to 1,500 pounds, including high-explosive, ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Members of the U.S. Army's Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team and Boulder County bomb squad evaluated a device that was taken to a Boulder hazardous materials facility on ...