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To: Vaduz

Russia’s are far worse with a 40% failure rate.

Many nations have decided they won’t use cluster bombs but the United States, Isreal, Ukraine, Russia, and others are not among them.

“The Trump administration cancels a plan to curtail the use of cluster bombs
November 30, 2017
“The policy change, which reverses a 2008 decision by the George W. Bush administration”

“The 2008 policy would have banned the use of all cluster munitions that have an unexploded ordnance rate above 1 percent. Going forward, the U.S. military will be allowed to buy cluster bombs that don’t meet that standard, so long as they have “advanced safety features” such as self-destruct mechanisms that would kick in after they are dropped.”


66 posted on 07/09/2023 2:10:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

We know how advanced safety features work they are fail safe fail safe fail safe.........................................

It’s not a matter of who cancels a plan to curtail the use of cluster bombs it’s a matter of who issues them when over a 100 countries out lawed them period.

You can pass the buck from the guilty


70 posted on 07/09/2023 2:35:19 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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