CBU-24 Vietnam era weapon. very effective against ground troops. We used them at flak suppression. 665 bomblets per container. We carried four per aircraft.
I can’t vouch for the validity of the claims, I’ve seen reports this morning talking about cluster bombs being given to Ukraine.
Two Points were made.
The reason we are giving them cluster munitions now is the USA has given Ukraine just about all of our conventional artillery shells in stock and cluster bombs are the only thing left to give Ukraine until production is ramped up to make more.
Second point - part of the justification of giving the bombs to Ukraine is Russia has been using them against Ukraine, the reports I’ve seen is that if Russia has been using cluster bombs, the entire world would have known about it because the USA would be alleging Russia is involved in War Crimes by using the weapons.
Could this be true, perhaps it could also be totally false.