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Israel has not signed the treaty and maintains that cluster bombs are a legitimate weapon. Israel believes the debate should be about the method of use rather than the legality of the weapon. Israel is a major producer, user, exporter and
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Cluster bombs, or cluster munitions, are weapons containing from several to hundreds of explosive submunitions. They are dropped from the air or fired from the ground and designed to break open in mid-air, releasing the submunitions and saturating
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Yes, the United States Department of the Air Force - Nonnuclear Munitions Safety Board has approved the AMPTEC 620A-4 for use by Air Force technicians to measure squib resistance on a number of explosive components including rocket motors, fuses,
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Neither Georgia nor Russia has signed the treaty banning cluster bombs since it was opened for signature in December 2008. Georgia attended the Oslo Signing Conference as an observer. Russia has strongly opposed the prohibition of cluster munitions
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Yes. Also, as of OFP version 1.46, fuel stations now explode when destroyed. However, fuel truck explosions are no greater than when other similar trucks explode.
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I would like to believe that our brave soldiers are not targeting innocent people, especially children. The official story is that we're in the middle of war so of course there will be casualties but American soldiers are not gunning for civilians.
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At a December 1999 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting, Human Rights Watch first called for a global moratorium on the use of all cluster munitions. From 2000–2003, CCW States Parties initially discussed and then negotiated on the
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Yes, says Ondrej Spanel, BIS' Lead Programmer. The more fuel and/or munitions laden a vehicle is when it is destroyed, the greater the radius of damage from the ensuing explosion. The same holds true for ammo crates. An exploding empty ammo crate
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The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) cannot provide a definitive answer without undertaking a Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) review of your item and making an official CJ determination. However, most manufacturers are able to self-classify
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The Convention will enter into force (ie. become law) six months after the 30th state has submitted their Instrument of Ratification to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
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