From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Robert G Lewis wrote:
> I thought you might be using a different definition that Phil and Adam. All
> of the definitions for Cluster Bomb that I've seen refer to using exploding
> bomblets, not ball bearings.
>
> Just a minor point as I consider the rockets with their ball bearings to be
> very nasty beasts and possibly a war crime.
>

Oh I hope not. If so your mil is in serious trouble.

Ball bearings (or more commonly/nastily nowadays "steel cubes")
are you're std AP warhead.

When you see shots of your helos/attack a/c unleashing some unguided
rockets then often there are a mix of warheads for "general
effect" headed down to earth.

You may as well ban the shotgun & the claymore etc while you're at it.

Adam

> Bob Lewis
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44e4b67a{at}w3.nls.net...
>> An anti-personnel weapon that uses various methods to produce a wide
>> spread array of shrapnel/projectiles intended to kill as many persons as
>> possible.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
>> news:44e49bb1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> How do you define Cluster Bomb ?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>>> news:44e48abe{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Hizbollah used cluster bombs in rockets fired at Israel. 
Does so all
>>>> the time.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>> "Phil Payne"
 wrote in message
>>>> news:44e478ed$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> Israel has defended its right to use cluster bombs
and says it only
>>>>>> ever
>>>>>> deploys them in accordance with international law.
It has not
>>>>>> specified
>>>>>> whether it used them in the Lebanon war.
>>>>> The sooner these thugs are eliminated the better for
mankind as a
>>>>> whole.
>>>>> They drag us all down with their base inhumanity.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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