Britain gets rid of Cluster Bombs

[Heibges]

That just means more stuff for Tankers to kill!

Hoo'ah!

The M1 is the perfect instrument for destroying waves of enemy armor.

[Letum]

I hope someone invents a cluster bomb with a detonation percentage above 99%.
Currently its less than 84% often that means over 400 unexploded bomb-lets, which are a real pain for both civilians and our own bomb disposal squads.
A 1% or lower failure rate would persuade me to support cluster bombs fully.

I am totally against cluster bombs that act on "booby trap" fuses that only go off when tampered with.

[fatty]

Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

I wonder how well this "smart" crap is gonna even work. If the bomblet had really been working, it should have exploded before it hit the ground. The ones that did not have malfunctioning detonators, so how are they going to detonate themselves after a set time...

Good point. How can we expect a bomblet to explode when we want if it already failed to do that in the first place?

[Torpedo Fodder]

Originally Posted by fatty

Good point. How can we expect a bomblet to explode when we want if it already failed to do that in the first place?

There are many reasons a contact detonatror could fail to detonate the bomblet on impact without it being defective, such as if it lands in loose dirt or soft mud. Just because it failed to detonate on impact doesn't mean a self-destruct would fail to destroy it.