: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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The controversial company was the last US firms to make cluster bombs, producing them as recently as 2016.—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026 From 1968 to l990 Marv Davidov spearheaded the Honeywell Project to protest that company’s creation of nuclear arms products, cluster bombs, and other military equipment.—Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026 Israel launched airstrikes on the capital Sana'a in response, with The Times of Israel reporting that the Houthis used a projectile with a cluster bomb warhead, damaging a home in central Israel.—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 Both Ukrainian and Russian forces have done so on many occasions, but these have been to turn the drones into steerable cluster bombs to attack personnel on the ground.—New Atlas, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb