[Terabitten]

I thought CBUs had timers so they all detonated in a specific period, like say, 48 hours?

[numberonepal]

Not passing the smell test. Maybe they were sitting next to depleted uranium shells and the radioactive decay set them off.

[rellimpank]

—I suspect my byline applies—

[SampleMan]

I thought CBUs had timers so they all detonated in a specific period, like say, 48 hours?

Nope. There is also the problem of them no arming, in which a time out would also be a problem.

[tlb]

Cluster bomblets have a dud rate of about 5 %.

The original Hamas claim was a million dud bomblets were littering Lebanon. That math didn’t add up to anybody who looked at it but hundreds of duds is reasonable. Doesn’t sound like anybody, Lebanese or Hamas, did much to look for them though.