The Pentagon will not abandon cluster bombs

The Pentagon will not give up cluster munitions, as it believes that their use is quite effective during the hostilities, reports TASS Statement by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.

Cluster munitions - weaponwhich is legally applied for specific military purposes. Although the Defense Ministry is seeking to adopt a new generation of more reliable ammunition, we cannot risk the failure of the operation, nor the potential increase in military and civilian casualties, refusing to use the best opportunities,

said Shanahan.

In 2008, the George W. Bush administration announced that after 1 in January and 2019, the US military would only use cluster bombs if their manufacturers could provide 99-percent explosive ordnance.

As stated by opponents of such ammunition, their charges "pose a great danger to people even after the end of hostilities," since a substantial part of them "do not detonate when they strike the ground and thus turn into mines." After many months, civilians are mostly being undermined.

However, manufacturers are not able to solve the task of modernizing cluster bombs. How much more time is needed is unknown. Therefore, the US command came to the conclusion that the deadline should be abandoned and allowed, if necessary, to use the existing stock of cluster bombs. In this case, the purchase of new batches of such ammunition, it was decided not to carry out anymore.

Comments

[Slovak]

Is the USA going to war again? Did they find a test tube from someone? Is someone threatening their safety?

[Jedi]

Quote: Slovak

Is the USA going to war again?

Of course, but as always - with the wrong hands.

Quote: Slovak

Did they find a test tube from someone?

And what is the old bad?

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Is someone threatening their safety?

But what about! They are constantly updating the list of major threats.

[Going]

“Cluster munitions are weapons that are used legally for specific military purposes.

This phrase touches, but on what grounds are you waging war?

[vovanpain]

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Is someone threatening their safety?

The whole world threatens them.

[Going]

The biggest threat to SSA is the United States itself. Hello, Vlad!

[san4es]

a substantial part of them “does not detonate upon impact on the ground and thus turns into mines”

[Nemesis]

And the Russian Federation should not give up napalm and cluster bombs. It is necessary to regret their soldiers, and not the enemy ...

[Sergey53]

We don’t seem to refuse them. In Syria, they seem to use it.

[askort154]

The Pentagon will not abandon cluster bombs

Until the last B-52 was decommissioned.

[rocket757]

What the hell is that.
Grandmother Chancellor Fuhrer on Assad for some sort of "barrel" bombs ran ??? Yankees calmly declare for prohibited \ barbaric ammunition and ??? all is well beautiful marquise !!!
In short, THE RIGHT OF THE STRONG is unshakable in this world !!!
I would like Schaub our politicians / rulers remembered it well !!! and yes, power, not only the number of nuclear weapons, but also the power of the people, the economy and ... further on the list !!!

[Incvizitor]

Well, right, for their purposes (bombing a peacekeeper) the most.

[Jack O'Neill]

And why should they refuse? The United States was not part of the cluster munitions convention, and therefore does not violate anything.

[Sergey-8848]

In military matters, it is often more useful to listen to generals, rather than ....... DSM - managers, makeup artists, stylists and referents.

[rocket757]

All of the above, how would the personnel of the liberal party?
Shot, I didn’t see working professions there?

[Sergey-8848]

This is not all presented yet !. We have a little more of them! Everything, as one, is for peace and friendship, but slightly towards the setting sun.

[rocket757]

Well, yes, not very much, but inspired by the most I can not!
You go in, look at the subscribers of ECHO, RAIN, MEDUSA, the whole staff on the face! The number is constant ... it’s true that they have recently taken over the youth, such as preparing a replenishment! I urge all sensible parents to take up the rods and other methods of education ... you will be late, get a protest electorate, in the family, too.