Clusterbombs are broken
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CBUs have been illegal since 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition#Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions
But of course some countries find them too useful and haven’t signed the convention. Hideous devices and I’m ex Military!!!
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CBUs have been illegal since 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition#Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions
But of course some countries find them too useful and haven’t signed the convention. Hideous devices and I’m ex Military!!!
Yep looks like 99% of the nations who own 0.1% of the cluster bombs agreed to the ban
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Yep looks like 99% of the nations who own 0.1% of the cluster bombs agreed to the ban
…and you are smiling why? CBUs are hideous weapons
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Because it doesn’t matter that they’re hideous weapons, what matter they’re just so bloody effective that the only nations calling for the ban were the ones who didn’t use them in first place, and anybody who did didn’t give a hoot about the ban. All that talk about morality is just smokescreen for plain old realpolitik. It’s cheaper to ban a weapon than to develop countermeasures. Nobody bans weapons which are genuinely useful to them, no matter how awful they might be.
I’ve tried using rockets in BMS, and needless to say, CBUs it is. Rockets have potential to be effective against unarmored movers, but in practice, the ones mounted on Vipers are just not lethal enough. Visual delivery is the only option with those, making things worse. Rockets are good for helos, because using bombs on them is perilous thing at best. The only more futile thing I’ve done was trying to strafe a truck with the cannon (it probably would’ve worked better if it was preplanned, but it’s not exactly something you expect to be doing…). My technique probably wasn’t best (we need a rockets/gun training TE), so I can’t say for sure they aren’t good for anything, but CBUs are rather easier to use.
Though to be entirely honest, when I’m doing BAI or SCAR, I just bring Mavs. Movers, non-movers, tanks, SHORAD, you name it, Mavs work against it, and from further away than you can loft a CBU from.
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…and you are smiling why? CBUs are hideous weapons
Sarcastic smile.
About my point on the topic, if the top military powers (USA,Russia,China) didn’t sign, then it becomes kind of pointless that the respective allies sign or not.
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I am cancelling my membership of this forum because there are far too many people who do not have a bloody clue about war. I wish you all well but people like @Viper37 are scum of the earth!
Bye
Likewise and thanks for the smile
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Well, what else could be expected out of a bunch of flyboys? From up there, the worst part of war is just a pretty light show. TGPs don’t zoom as much as to give you a good view at all the disembodied corpses and bloody carnage doesn’t show up well on thermal (or B/W video for that matter). We’re the guys who see the big red-guarded “NUCLEAR CONSENT” switch in the 'pit and wish it’ll get implemented someday (sadly, it’s probably too classified for that to happen)…
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Well, what else could be expected out of a bunch of flyboys? From up there, the worst part of war is just a pretty light show. TGPs don’t zoom as much as to give you a good view at all the disembodied corpses and bloody carnage doesn’t show up well on thermal (or B/W video for that matter). We’re the guys who see the big red-guarded “NUCLEAR CONSENT” switch in the 'pit and wish it’ll get implemented someday (sadly, it’s probably too classified for that to happen)…
We dont give a shit dude.
WE ARE HERE TO KILL ALL NON COOPERATIVE PARTIES and they will pay the ****ing price! -
JSOW AGM-154A can be also considered like a clusterbomb…it delivers 145 BLU-97 bomblets as in CBU-87/B
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CBUs have been illegal since 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition#Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions
But of course some countries find them too useful and haven’t signed the convention. Hideous devices and I’m ex Military!!!
Probably worth noting that its a convention; its law in the countries that are signatories, but its not binding on countries which are not signatory to the convention. So CBUs have been outlawed in many countries since 2010, but not outlawed generally.
I note the page you linked discusses the US’ attempts at alleviating the humanitarian concerns associated with cluster munitions, including a planned for (but subsequently abandoned) suspension of use of submunitions after 2018 unless the munitions had less than a 1% dud rate. Apparently they were unable to secure munitions which demonstrate that particular characteristic.
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In Star Citizens , is the “MEGA SUPER DESTRUCTOR PLASMA LASER” illegal by Geneva convention?
Come on guys … this is a simulation. A video game.
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Let the moderation team’s intervention in this here thread to remind you that despite your disagreements you should remain civil and courteous at all times.
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Not a warfighter this guy?
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