cluster bomb in English

noun

1

a bomb that releases a number of projectiles on impact to injure or damage personnel and vehicles.

The sole instance that bears a distinct resemblance to modern techniques is the scorpion bomb - the very name conjures an image of a cluster bomb delivering stinging poisonous fragments onto the enemy.

Use "cluster bomb" in a sentence

1. Integrate the TC-2A anti-radiation missile and the Wan Chien cluster bomb.

2. The cluster bomb was designed to hold about 540 of the E61 anthrax Bomblets

3. Yet he will Consciencelessly cluster-bomb downtown Baghdad, and pride himself on having done so

4. Nor are we gasping for a chance to be blasted to smithereens by a cluster bomb. Sentencedict.com

5. The M143 Bomblet was a biological cluster bomb sub-munition developed by the United States during the 1960s

6. Cluster bomb use creates a vicious circle of impact on communities, and not only the lives of their victims.

7. The E61 Bomblet was a 230 grams (1⁄2 lb) anti-personnel bomb designed to be carried in the E133 cluster bomb

8. Bomblet CBS/Randy Schmidt A small cluster bomb submunition is seen partially buried in dirt where it was found in Laos

9. It has been estimated that Brimstone will be 3 times more effective than the AGM-65G Maverick missile against modern tanks, and 7 times more effective than the BL755 cluster bomb.

10. ‘Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded Bomblet from a cluster bomb.’ ‘One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a Bomblet …

11. ‘Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded Bomblet from a cluster bomb.’ ‘One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a Bomblet …

12. Holonyms ("Bomblet" is a part of): cluster bomb (bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of Bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a