cluster munition

Occasionally clearance cannot keep up with development and at least one cluster munition was uncovered by road construction teams in 2010.

Since late 2007 three cluster munition accidents have caused the deaths of two people and severe injuries to a further five adults and children.

A cluster munition, more well known as a cluster bomb, is an explosive device which are exploded in the air or on the ground.

The Cluster Munition Coalition says that should not be a justification for using weapons which are banned by more than 100 countries.

It also co-founded the Cluster Munition Coalition, which brought about an international convention banning the weapons.

One of Textron's subsidiaries, Textron Systems, produces and sells cluster munition.

A cluster munition is an air-dropped or ground launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions.

Two months earlier, she had travelled to Lebanon to survey the damage caused by cluster munition use in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War.

It is a 120mm caliber mortar cluster munition that can carry a variety of payloads including either 54 M80 dual-purpose submunitions or six mines.

On the same day, she dispersed the contents of a model cluster munition from a balcony at Parliament House, Canberra, as an educational exercise.

This in turn reduces the number of missiles and launch facilities required for a given destruction level - much the same as the purpose of a cluster munition.

Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor ("the Monitor")

Human Rights Watch "Cluster Munition Questions and Answers: The M26 Rocket"

Unlike conventional cruise missiles, which sometimes use cluster munition payloads, and unlike bombers, nuclear armed cruise missiles have a single warhead.

The Swiss Campaign is also a member of the Cluster Munition Coalition and supports current efforts to ban cluster munitions.

According to Pax Christi, a Netherlands-based NGO, in 2009, around 137 financial institutions financed cluster munition production.

HALO currently has three teams and a total of 65 demining staff accredited and deployed clearing minefields and cluster munition strikes.

A rain of large ball-shaped shrapnel from the cluster munition airbursts showered the market, nearby streets, and open-air cafés, with each blast affecting a large area.

The missile can use a single warhead of 200 kg of high explosive or cluster munition warhead with 24 grenades for anti-personnel or anti-tank targets.

GLOSSON. . . . Yes, we use the cluster munition to cover a wider area when the military situation dictates that.

The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international civil society movement campaigning against the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions.

Combat loads included high-explosive bombs, cluster munition dispensers, unguided rocket packs, napalm tanks, and the SUU-11/A Minigun pod.

The MAT-120 cargo bomb is a Spanish produced cluster munition, fired from a 120mm calibre mortar produced by Instalaza SA.

Each munitions dispenser costs $8,900, and when fitted to the cluster munition's tail, it keeps the bomb on course through high winds until it is ready to disgorge its bomblets.

Smith married Simon Conway, an author and co-chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, on the island of Iona, where her father is buried, on 22 September 2007.