submunitions

At least two submunitions from the attack entered the basement that the Ali family was using as a shelter, wounding 12 persons, including seven children.

Israel-Lebanon Conflict 2006

It prohibits cluster munitions that randomly scatter tens or hundreds of so-called submunitions that have no self-destruct capability or capacity and which pose a long-term threat to innocent civilians for years to come after hostilities have ceased.

Questions Without Notice: Cluster Munitions Convention - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2008

The items in question are what ordnance professionals call submunitions, but are more widely known among lay readers as cluster bombs.

NYT > Home Page By C. J. CHIVERS 2012

Many readers suggested that the submunitions were a variant of the American-made M77, but while they do fall within the same general family as the M77 they are quite a different weapon.

NYT > Home Page By C. J. CHIVERS 2012

It is a member of the cluster munitions family - one of the so-called submunitions carried inside a larger canister that opens in flight, releases bomblets and distributes them to the ground below.

NYT > Home Page By C. J. CHIVERS 2012

After the Israeli shelling in the summer of 2006 when four million cluster submunitions were dropped on South Lebanon, Lamis left teaching and sought out ways to become directly involved in making sure that the hundreds of thousands of these unexploded submunitions didn't threaten the lives of the school children, including her two young, daughters, she cared so much about.

Pat Mitchell: Just That Much Braver Pat Mitchell 2011

During the invasion, American and British forces had fired cluster bombs loaded with submunitions that looked like batteries or pieces of scrap metal.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

During the invasion, American and British forces had fired cluster bombs loaded with submunitions that looked like batteries or pieces of scrap metal.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Lamis has taken on the incredibly dangerous work of searching for and clearing out unexplored submunitions in South Lebanon, her home region.

Pat Mitchell: Just That Much Braver Pat Mitchell 2011

Typically the cluster broke apart at 2,000 feet, spewing its submunitions over a desirable area.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010