submunition
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submunition (plural submunitions)
- Any part of a weapon (typically a bomb or missile) that separates from a parent munition before or during employment.
- 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.