From: "Phil Payne" 

"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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> 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.

Shrapnell has always been nasty - balls, case fragments, etc.  It's all
part of making weapons nasty.

To a degree it depends on who they're used on.  A deep field of advancing
infantry invading your country - by all means use flechettes.  A woman and
her two children deep insĄde their own - no.

Cluster bombs are effectively anti-personnel mine deployers.  Such mines
are internationally illegal, even when used against an opposing military.

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