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cluster bomb

n. explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.

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cluster bomb

n. bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area; "cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely"

Usage examples of "cluster bomb".

And he apparently got the specs for the Supergun so what he went and built was an antimatter cluster bomb .

One cluster bomb, however, went off right on the foredeck of the big cruiser, sending a wall of fragments and shards into the ship's superstructure, instantly destroying its bridge and combat control center.

No one was anxious to march out into the open and have a cluster bomb dropped on them anyway.

Rebel gunners have not dropped a cluster bomb or even something as simple as napalm, setting the camp ablaze.

The cluster bomb opened out almost immediately and scattered two hundred more bomblets across the decimated Posleen adding insult to the masses of injury.

When a cluster bomb-known as a CBU-exploded it sent out dozens of fiaming pieces of high-speed shrapnel in every direction.

And guess what--one of the unexploded bombs recovered from the Fort Worth bombing matches a military lot-number of several cluster bomb units stolen from a Nevada Navy arsenal several days prior.

They don't want to see another one, and the radicals sure as hell don't want 'Admiral Cluster Bomb' dropping by to pay them another visit.