The Fire Shadow is a "loitering munition" capable of travelling 100km, more than twice the maximum range of a traditional artillery shell.
Once a brick of explosive armour detonates, that spot becomes more vulnerable to a second charge carried towards the rear of the same munition and detonated about 500 microseconds later.
Textron, an American arms company, says the three countries that have bought its new "sensor-fused weapons", and the 17 that may, are unlikely to sign the treaty.Another snag is defining what a cluster munition is.
They came up with a way to use high-quality cryptography to secure the link between a web page and its visitors.In those days America's government classified cryptography then an arcane subject, of interest mostly to soldiers, diplomats and spies as a munition, and regulated its export.
Nonetheless, the American authorities told Mr Bigelow that this coffee table was part of a satellite assembly and so counted as a munition.
Furthermore, anything modified for a munition is a munition.
Instead, he charges, the bureaucracy has taken the "safe and easy" option and declared everything to be a munition until proven otherwise.
Pierre Chao, a senior associate at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think-tank in Washington, DC, says that as soon as satellites were put on the munitions list "the little screw and the commodity wiring became a munition".
Using the co-ordinates of previously bombed sites, data from topographical and street maps, and information on an area's ethnic, linguistic and confessional "human terrain", SCARE is able to predict where guerrillas' munition dumps will be to within about 700 metres.
A high-explosive munition known as "squash head", fired by some British tanks, flattens a ball of plastic explosives against an armoured vehicle.
Smart bomb, also called smart missile, type of precision-guided munition.
