Moscow will use its stockpile if Ukraine deploys the widely-banned munitions first, Putin said.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia had a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster bombs and reserved the right to use them if such munitions, the use of which he said he regarded as a crime, were deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine.

Ukraine said on Thursday it had received cluster bombs from the United States

  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 year ago

    From what I understand Putin is using a stricter definition of “cluster bombs” as a muntition containing a bomblets submunition.

    I have seen of Russian videos munitions are hypersonic missiles, thermobaric bombs (incendiary submunition), and timed remote mine submunitions (a timed self-destruct feature or one that turns it inert after a while) but none utilizing a pressure fuse like the butterfly mines that were used by Ukraine.

    They are terrible weapons regardless of definition

    • chowder@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      none utilizing a pressure fuse like the butterfly mines that were used by Ukraine.

      Both sides claim the other is using these, and both sides likely are.