Sentence examples for explosive bomblets from inspiring English sources

Cluster bombs, typically anti-personnel weapons that eject dozens of explosive bomblets when detonated, killed as many as 17 civilians during the brief, bloody war and wounded dozens more, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

The cluster munitions were visible late Thursday night, in the form of what appeared to be at least three 120-millimeter mortar rounds that burst in the air over the city, scattering high-explosive bomblets below.

Cluster bombs scatter explosive 'bomblets' over a wide area, and are responsible for the deaths and injuries of thousands of civilians.

The UN estimates that 98% of victims of cluster munitions, explosive weapons that scatter bomblets across a wide area, are civilians.

The missile could deliver conventional high-explosive warheads or cluster bomblets.

Complementing conventional artillery are truck-mounted multiple-rocket launchers, which can decimate battlefields or truck convoys with dozens of unguided rockets carrying high explosives, antipersonnel or antiarmour bomblets, or even toxic gas.

But many groups faulted the military for its continued use of cluster bombs, explosives within explosives that sprinkle hundreds of soda-can size "bomblets" over a wide area.

When the CBU-52B/Bs are used, the shell — known in the arms trade as a dispenser, which makes it sound like it squirts hand soap rather than raining down deadly explosives — separates in mid-air, dropping 220 bomblets at a time on an area roughly the size of a football field.

(Bomb technicians say moving bomblets can potentially trigger their explosion).

She is the only woman in the country to be trained in explosives demolition and at the end of the day detonates the bomblets they find.

By design, each submunition has a small shaped charge for penetrating light armor and also a metal casing that, under the force of the explosive charge within, fragments to wound people caught in the open when the bomblets flutter down.