I’m a little confused by the news of US supplying cluster munitions to UA.
I admittedly haven’t yet had much of a chance to look too deeply into it, but I’m sure one spokes person specifically mentioned that the previous concerns about dud rates aren’t a worry anymore as they’re able to reduce it down to 2%.
But the US has recently passed the bill to ban their usage by their own forces unless they were less than 1%. Which has effectively banned the use of them because arms companies admitted that they would be unable to guarantee that with current technologies.
In the meantime the US are destroying their stockpiles as they’re anywhere from 5 - 15%.
So where are they getting these 2% dud rate munitions from?
I know there has been talks of supplying some of the current stockpile that has been flagged for destruction for use to drop from drones. Basically taking the individual clusters and putting them into a little aero bomblet sleeve thing.
I have mixed feeling about the usage of them, purely due to the dud rates, but honestly as far as Ukraine are concerned, they’re in a total war for survival and they should be able to use any tool available to them (excluding NBC). And I trust them to be used only in the appropriate places, and that areas will be sufficiently cleared prior to civilian access.