The Pentagon said the weapons they would send to Ukraine had a failure rate of 2.35% or less. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ukraine has also used Russian-made cluster munitions, and had repeatedly asked for American-made ones, knowing the United States maintains large reserves.“This is their country they’re defending. These are their citizens they’re protecting and they are motivated to use any weapon system they have in a way that minimizes risks to those citizens.”
Analysts say that as many as 40 per cent of the bomblets from Russia’s cluster munitions have resulted in duds. In a briefing to reporters on Friday, Mr Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defence for policy, said the shells being sent to Ukraine had been tested five times between 1998 and 2020. US military bomb-disposal specialists are trained to exercise extreme caution in places where cluster weapons have been used, and to expect that about 20 per cent of all submunitions, regardless of the country of origin, will fail to explode.
Weighing less than half a pound each, they contain an explosive warhead that will fire a jet of molten metal downward capable of penetrating 2 1/2 inches of armor plate. The Pentagon built millions of these artillery shells from the 1970s to the 1990s, according to government records, and fired 25,000 of them during the Persian Gulf war.
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