BLU-63 cluster bomblets

A staggering 270 million bombs were dropped on Laos, during what became known as the secret war, because Americans were unaware of what was going on. The 80 ... Forty-four years after the last mission, the bombs the US dropped are still causing deaths and casualties. .... 24 Blu-63 cluster bomblets.

While the amendment was narrowly defeated, 204-216, the near miss indicates that the global campaign to ban the use or sale of cluster bombs has ... BLU-63 submunitions that broke apart on impact after being dispersed by CBU-58 cluster bombs in the Hayal Sayeed neighborhood of Sanaa on January ...

Amnesty International has written to prime minister David Cameron and other senior ministers demanding a full Government inquiry into new evidence that Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces have used UK-manufactured cluster bombs - which may have killed and injured civilians, including children - in the ...

Earlier identified by the Human Rights Watch, the CBU-58 cluster bombs and BLU-63 submunitions were reportedly developed by the United States during the Vietnam War and are designed to attack personnel and lightly protected materiel. As for the submunitions, they also contain 5-gram titanium pellets ...

When coalition aircraft dropped cluster bombs on Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, it elicited an outcry. On January 6, residents of the Maaen district of Sanaa reported "aerial attacks consistent with cluster bomb use," Human Rights Watch reported, providing a photograph of the golf ball-sized BLU-63 bomblets ...

This Technical Briefing Note reviews the use of cluster munitions in the conflict in Yemen since a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of nations began military operations against Ansar Allah (Houthi forces) on March 26, 2015. This is not the first time cluster munitions have been used in Yemen. Previously, Saudi ...

Cluster munitions used in the attacks have been identified as US-made BLU-63 antipersonnel/anti-materiel submunitions and components of a CBU-58 cluster bomb. Each air-dropped CBU-58 cluster bomb contains 650 submunitions. Cluster munitions of this type were exported by the United States to ...

Human Rights Watch identified the munitions as from US-made BLU-63 antipersonnel/anti-materiel submunitions and components of a CBU-58 cluster bomb. Markings on the bomb remnants indicate that it was manufactured in 1978 at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant in the state of Tennessee in the ...

He was killed by a BLU 63, the size and shape of a tennis ball, dark green in colour and the most widely used cluster munitions in the conflict. A cluster bomb contains hundreds of these bomblets, which it releases as it falls. The BLU 63 bomblets have little fins or "flutes" that make them spin as they drop.

On a wind-swept hilltop outside the village of Halloussiyeh, 10 miles northeast of Tyre, a team from Bactec, a British ordnance clearing company, inches its way along a terrace of small olive trees, hunting for BLU-63 cluster munitions. Most of the tennis-ball sized metal bomblets are easily visible, although ...