Tag: Convention on Cluster Munitions

ARES releases Special Report 4, assessing CCM compliance of munitions with sensor-fuzed submunitions

29 October 2021air-delivered munitions, artillery, cluster munitions, Convention on Cluster Munitions, EWPA, indirect fire, munitions, report, special report

Armament Research Services (ARES) is pleased to announce the release of Special Report 4, Munitions Employing Sensor-fuzed Submunitions: Do they Comply with the Convention on Cluster Munitions?. Special Report 4 critically evaluates the definition of “cluster munition” established by the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), in order to assess the convention’s applicability to cargo munitions

US CBU-97/CBU-105 ‘Sensor Fuzed Weapon’ cluster munition

5 August 2017BLU-108, CBU-105, CBU-97, CCM, cluster bomb, cluster munition, Convention on Cluster Munitions, sensor fuzed weapon, sensor-fuzed munition, SFW, Skeet, Smart Skeet, submunition, Textron

N.R. Jenzen-Jones Several modern, anti-armour cargo (carrier) munitions employ submunitions which are capable of independently identifying a target and each engaging an individual vehicle. These ‘sensor-fuzed submunitions’, whilst still uncommon as a percentage of states’ arsenals, have been employed in a number of current and recent conflicts and are now held by a number of

Tag: Convention on Cluster Munitions

ARES releases Special Report 4, assessing CCM compliance of munitions with sensor-fuzed submunitions

US CBU-97/CBU-105 ‘Sensor Fuzed Weapon’ cluster munition

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