cluster bomb

See also: clusterbomb

English

Noun

cluster bomb (plural cluster bombs)

1. An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.

   Synonym: cluster munition

   • 2022 April 21, Lorenzo Tondo, “Russia using cluster bombs to kill Ukrainian civilians, analysis suggests”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Bellingcat […] has reviewed some of the pictures collected by the Guardian, confirmed the presence of tail fins of RBK-500 cluster bombs with PTAB-1M submunitions and cluster rocket, launched by BM-30 Smerch.

Derived terms

• cluster F-bomb

Translations

explosive munition

• Armenian: կասետային ռումբ (kasetayin ṙumb)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集束炸彈／集束炸弹 (zh) (jíshù zhàdàn)

• Danish: klyngebombe c
• Dutch: clusterbom (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rypälepommi (fi)
• French: bombe à sous-munitions f, arme à sous-munitions f
• German: Streubombe (de) f
• Hungarian: kazettás bomba
• Icelandic: klasasprenga f
• Irish: cnuasbhuama m
• Italian: bomba a grappolo f
• Japanese: クラスター爆弾 (kurasutā bakudan)
• Macedonian: ка́сетна бо́мба f (kásetna bómba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klasebombe m or f

  Nynorsk: klasebombe f

• Russian: кассе́тная бо́мба (ru) f (kassétnaja bómba)
• Serbo-Croatian: kasetna bomba f, rasprskavajuća bomba f, kasetna avio-bomba f
• Spanish: bomba de racimo f
• Swedish: klusterbomb (sv) c
• Turkish: misket bombası
• Ukrainian: касе́тна бо́мба f (kasétna bómba)