Europe needs cluster munitions to defend itself from Russia, two military analysts say. If the US backs away from NATO, European militaries will need them to knock out Russian air defenses.

A cluster munition is a bomb that opens in the air and releases smaller “bomblets” across a wide area. The bomblets are designed to take out tanks and equipment, as well as troops, hitting ...

Cluster ammunitions are controversial, and the decision by the White House to send them to Ukraine is turning heads. That’s because they’re banned in more than 100 countries. The Pentagon made ...

Ukraine has requested American Mk.20 Rockeye II anti-tank cluster bombs.One 500-pound Rockeye contains 247 small bomblets, each capable of destroying a tank. The weapon was designed so U.S. attack ...

Israel has accused Iran of deploying a missile armed with cluster munitions during the ongoing conflict, marking the first reported use of such weapons. These munitions release submunitions over a ...

The United States has announced that it is sending cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines. The administration of Joe Biden said ...

An image showing an RBK-500 cluster bomb, as new reports suggest Russia is using modified RBK-500s as glide bombs in southern Donetsk. Russia is now using a "number of new types of glide bomb ...

Earlier in March 2025, Ukraine’s eastern region of Dobropillia was attacked by Russia with cluster bombs targeting the centre of the town, which claimed the lives of 11 people, injuring 40.

The group estimated that the U.S.-led coalition dropped more than 1,500 cluster bombs in Afghanistan during the first three years of the conflict.The Defense Department had been due by 2019 to ...

South Sudan acceded to the international Convention on Cluster Munitions on August 3, 2023, the 112th country to do so, Human Rights Watch said today.

Europe needs cluster munitions to defend itself from Russia, two military analysts say. If the US backs away from NATO, European militaries will need them to knock out Russian air defenses.

Cluster ammunitions are controversial, and the decision by the White House to send them to Ukraine is turning heads. That’s because they’re banned in more than 100 countries. The Pentagon made ...