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Watch: Russia using cluster bombs in Syria

The Russian RBK-500 SPBE-D Sensor-Fuzed Anti-Tank Weapon, a bomb that carries fifteen submunitions that seek out vehicles, guide themselves over the target, then fire a copper penetrator, shaped-style charge, or explosively formed projectile, or EFP, into the target. A Cold War era weapon designed to take out armor formations.

The bomblets deploy from the casing of the main bomb in-flight and float down on small parachutes. Their sensors scan for irregular shapes and thermal images of engines in tanks and vehicles,  or any other heat signature –  for the acquired target and fires the copper slug through it. The Russian RBK-500 often targets things like cars, landed aircraft, oddly shaped artillery pieces like the M777, and just about anything else from donkeys to people on bicycles.

Trying to think like a Russian, the Russians could simply be expending soon-to-expire or expired munition stockpiles. Russia has released a large amount of like munitions to Assad and to Russain Federation forces and alliances within Syria. Russian aligned forces in Syria, as well as Ukraine, have been trigger happy-crazy with GRAD, MLRS, URAGAN, and SMERCH missile barrages that absolutely devastated square kilometers.

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The Russian RBK-500 SPBE-D Sensor-Fuzed Anti-Tank Weapon, a bomb that carries fifteen submunitions that seek out vehicles, guide themselves over the target, then fire a copper penetrator, shaped-style charge, or explosively formed projectile, or EFP, into the target. A Cold War era weapon designed to take out armor formations.

The bomblets deploy from the casing of the main bomb in-flight and float down on small parachutes. Their sensors scan for irregular shapes and thermal images of engines in tanks and vehicles,  or any other heat signature –  for the acquired target and fires the copper slug through it. The Russian RBK-500 often targets things like cars, landed aircraft, oddly shaped artillery pieces like the M777, and just about anything else from donkeys to people on bicycles.

Trying to think like a Russian, the Russians could simply be expending soon-to-expire or expired munition stockpiles. Russia has released a large amount of like munitions to Assad and to Russain Federation forces and alliances within Syria. Russian aligned forces in Syria, as well as Ukraine, have been trigger happy-crazy with GRAD, MLRS, URAGAN, and SMERCH missile barrages that absolutely devastated square kilometers.

https://youtu.be/Tk9RS7nY72k

Well, it is a war crime?

They are, for countries who signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions Treaty.

Russia isn’t one of those countries.

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is an American. He served eleven years for God and Country with the illustrious Airborne Combat Engineers and dedicated four of those years traveling to wonderful faraway lands where he dug around in the dirt looking for bombs. After much soul searching, he decided to return to academia. There he obtained two additional university degrees, and he is now pursuing a fourth - because university

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