• 1 Post
  • 13 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2023

help-circle













  • fulcrummed@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I had to look up what they actually do - although I’ve known the term since I was a kid. Basically it’s like a pipe bomb full of smaller explosives that is supposed to explode mid-air releasing LOTS of other explosives across a big area indiscriminately destroying anything in the little blammo’s radius. The baby bomblets can be fragmenting to destroy flesh, incendiary to explode and burn shit up, they may be anti-tank/vehicle, or even pressure sensitive mines waiting to be disturbed by a passer by (just like land mines). Now I understand the controversy.