: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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In Iraq, militants used powerful but crude explosive devices; two decades later, Armonda had to deal with the carnage wrought by cluster bombs and thermobaric explosions.—Martha Raddatz, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026 The report said the ammunition included cluster bombs and air mines dropped during the fighting.—Toqa Ezzidin, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026 Iran and Israel have previously accused each other of using cluster bombs.—CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 In and around Haifa, in northern Israel, NBC News witnessed at least three places that had been hit, likely with Iranian cluster bombs.—Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb