Cluster bombs or Cluster munitions are air-dropped or ground-launched munitions that eject a number of smaller submunitions: a cluster of bomblets. Cluster Bomb can destroy very wide area. The most common types are intended to kill enemy personnel and destroy vehicles. Submunition based weapons designed to destroy runways, electric power transmission lines, deliver chemical or biological weapons, or to scatter land mines have also been produced.
The dud rate of a typical cluster bomb can vary, but it is typically estimated to be around 5-20%. This means that a significant percentage of the bomblets inside the cluster bomb fail to explode upon impact, posing a risk to civilians who may come into contact with them.
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A hydrogen bomb (thermonuclear bomb) is more destructive than a regular nuclear bomb (fission bomb). Hydrogen bombs release much larger amounts of energy and have the potential to create significantly more devastation and damage.
A traditional nuclear fission bomb is used as a trigger in a hydrogen bomb. The explosion from the fission bomb generates the high temperatures and pressures needed to initiate the fusion reaction in the hydrogen bomb.
Nuclear bomb can mean either fission or fusion bomb. Hydrogen bomb means fusion bomb. The fusion bomb can be built with any yield one wants, just by adding more stages with more fuel. The fission bomb has a theoretical maximum yield that cannot be exceeded.
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the "master" bomb is filled with "bomblets" or munitions that go off at intervals
The dud rate of a typical cluster bomb can vary, but it is typically estimated to be around 5-20%. This means that a significant percentage of the bomblets inside the cluster bomb fail to explode upon impact, posing a risk to civilians who may come into contact with them.
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a flock of birds a gaggle of geese a shoal of fish a cluster of bombs ..he he!.. nah, a 'cluster bomb' is actually a nasty bomb that once it explodes it releases more mini bombs (the clusters) all over the place which then explode as ancilliary explosions.
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Typically, a Cluster Bomb.