Posted on 11/25/2024 10:05:19 PM PST by bitt
Depends on what they’re hitting. If they drop on of those on the *still operating nuclear plants* and crack the containment... yeah, that’s going to be a huge problem.
Likewise if they throw the same six missile/36 HGV salvo at critical government elements in Kiev - they can put conventional payloads in the HGVs for additional incendiary or other effect (though depending on impact speed, it might be irrelevant). Decap strikes are still more than possible and Kiev does not have real ABM defenses (not that they’d do any good against HGVs).
Others have already answered the “when did they come back” question. The “inhumane” part, aside from the people who decry all actually effective weapons, that had some validity was that cluster munitions at the time could be defective, lie dormant for years, decades or longer and then some kid could come along well after the war is over, picks up the paperback-sized device and *then* it decides to go off. Similar to the objections to mines - they did have a point, albeit not much of one.
The solution was to come up with a new generation of mines and cluster munitions that have a finite lifespan so that even if they aren’t swept after the conflict, they go inert after a certain period of time post deployment. The US has an entire new generation of mines based on this... that we’re shipping to Ukraine.
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