The missiles were not designed as antipersonnel weapons; they were meant for tanks or aircraft, with armor-piercing warheads.

The meson pistol was not a good antipersonnel weapon.

Some of the Syrian missiles, like the ones that hit a Haifa railway yard, have warheads filled with antipersonnel weapons like ball bearings.

"But it's the cluster bombs that are the worst problem," he said, describing the effects of antipersonnel weapons that spread shrapnel over a wide area.

The pirates, it seems, preferred close-quarters fighting with antipersonnel weapons over destructive cannon battles.

The CBUs were virtually useless in the heavy foliage of a rain forest, but as antipersonnel weapons for lightly defended troops they were the perfect weapon.

Komar is an effective antipersonnel weapon, against light armored vehicles and firing posts.

The larger the antipersonnel weapon," Lanzotta continued, "the more the Techs loaded on the armor.

Soon new, light, easy-to-handle explosives made possible a demoralizing antipersonnel weapon that could be detonated by a footfall.

So far, they have found about 2,000 explosive devices - from 1,000-pound bombs to fist-size antipersonnel weapons.