: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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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 Under some conditions, Varma can now consider investing in such a manufacturer if, for example, the controversial weapons such as cluster bombs account for no more than 5 percent of sales.—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025 Campbell, a University of Colorado grad who lives in Ridgway, faced other kinds of potentially fatal risks beyond his control — cluster bombs, missiles, artillery fire — on multiple trips to Ukraine since 2022 as a conflict journalist.—John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb
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