Wiktionary
n. Any part of a weapon (typically a bomb or missile) that separates from a parent munition before or during employment
Usage examples of "submunition".
Each submunition, about the size and shape of a softball, was an onion of destruction.
By then the attacking combat wasps had begun dispensing their submunitions drones.
They began to jettison their submunitions, and everything became far too complicated for the human mind to follow.
The blast destroyed every combat wasp submunitions friend or foe within a hundred kilometres, while its emp disabled an even larger number.
Beaulieu reached forwards to hold a hose over the top of the submunitions chamber.
Eight surviving submunitions drones detected it, three of them were gamma-pulse lasers.
The drones leapt upwards at twenty gees, scattering submunitions almost immediately.
Five nuclear-tipped submunitions exploded perilously close to Aethra, reducing the latest attacking combat wasp to its subatomic constituents.
Combat-wasp submunitions produced a continual astral fire of plasma between them.
The swarm of pursuing combat wasps and their submunitions had impacted seconds behind them, kinetic explosions tossing out a ragged sheet of fire.
Jesus, but it felt good to see the vector lines emerge as the submunitions separated.
The hundreds of submunitions the canisters expelled spread over a wide area and exploded before they reached the ground.
The explosions of their 200mm warheads on the Fritz positions eight kilometers to the north echoed back, grumbling, from mountains shrouded in cloud like a surf of fire, glittering like sun on tropical spray, each shell paced with a score of submunitions, bomblets.
In that time the remaining five submunitions hit the kinetic umbrella.
Over five hundred combat wasps were in flight, and thousands of submunitions wove convoluted trajectories.