At least two submunitions from the attack entered the basement that the Ali family was using as a shelter, wounding 12 persons, including seven children. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It prohibits cluster munitions that randomly scatter tens or hundreds of so-called submunitions that have no self-destruct capability or capacity and which pose a long-term threat to innocent civilians for years to come after hostilities have ceased. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The items in question are what ordnance professionals call submunitions, but are more widely known among lay readers as cluster bombs. ❋ By C. J. CHIVERS (2012)
Many readers suggested that the submunitions were a variant of the American-made M77, but while they do fall within the same general family as the M77 they are quite a different weapon. ❋ By C. J. CHIVERS (2012)
It is a member of the cluster munitions family - one of the so-called submunitions carried inside a larger canister that opens in flight, releases bomblets and distributes them to the ground below. ❋ By C. J. CHIVERS (2012)
After the Israeli shelling in the summer of 2006 when four million cluster submunitions were dropped on South Lebanon, Lamis left teaching and sought out ways to become directly involved in making sure that the hundreds of thousands of these unexploded submunitions didn't threaten the lives of the school children, including her two young, daughters, she cared so much about. ❋ Pat Mitchell (2011)
During the invasion, American and British forces had fired cluster bombs loaded with submunitions that looked like batteries or pieces of scrap metal. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)
Lamis has taken on the incredibly dangerous work of searching for and clearing out unexplored submunitions in South Lebanon, her home region. ❋ Pat Mitchell (2011)
Typically the cluster broke apart at 2,000 feet, spewing its submunitions over a desirable area. ❋ Barrett Tillman (2010)
Simultaneously with dropping the Pop-Tarts and parkas of discord, American warplanes were delivering different payloads of bright yellow packages to the Afghan soil: thousands of BLU-97/B submunitions. ❋ Anna Badkhen (2010)
This evidence suggests that a massive failure of the weapon may have caused Georgian submunitions not to reach their intended targets in South Ossetia. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cluster munitions are large weapons that release dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unexploded submunitions continue to threaten civilians. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The cluster munitions left an unusually high number of unexploded submunitions and fell short of minimum range. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Second, many of the submunitions do not explode on impact as designed, causing civilian casualties for months or years to come. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unexploded submunitions also littered farms, interfering with harvests. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Neither the bomb nor the submunitions, Goose explains, are precision guided. ❋ Unknown (2008)