used them to quickly clear German trenches. Everyone else in the world agreed that Germany, who had rolled out chemical weapons during the same war, was full of crap.īut yes, America’s enemy Germany tried to get the shotgun banned on the basis that they were unnecessarily painful, but the U.S. Yeah, it may sound crazy, but Germany tried to argue in World War I that shotguns were an illegal weapon.
America has not ratified that treaty and, in 2017, relaxed rules that limited the ability of the Department of Defense to buy cluster munitions.īut the military is trying to find new weapons that wouldn’t violate the treaty but would be effective. These have an unfortunate tendency to explode when civilians stumble across them, so most countries banned them by ratifying the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Each one releases shrapnel and shreds light vehicles, aircraft, and personnel.īut many of those grenades fail to detonate when dropped, meaning that dozens or even hundreds of pieces of unexploded ordnance can be left behind. They’re super effective, allowing a single bomb drop to disperse hundreds of what are essentially grenades. Air Force) Cluster munitionsĬluster munitions are weapons with a lot more weapons inside of them, usually bombs, rockets, or artillery shells filled with bomblets. A B-1B Lancer drops cluster munitions during a test.
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