"So in terms of DPICM, I don't have anything to announce today," Ryder said. "As you know, that is something that is under consideration." DPICM evolved from the earlier Improved Conventional Munition ...

Ukrainians are now breaking down some of the U.S.-made cluster munition artillery shells they've recently received to repurpose the submunition bomblets they carry as improvised weapons to be ...

The U.S. should not provide Ukraine with "more and more lethal, long-range, complex modern systems," according to a Russian official, as the war that began with Russia's invasion on February 24, 2022, ...

Several reports suggest the Biden Administration is moving closer to providing Ukraine cluster munitions. Here’s why Ukraine wants them. A cluster munition, or cluster bomb, is a weapon—an artillery ...

A Ukrainian army M270 launcher. On March 12, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden unexpectedly gifted to Ukraine a $300-million consignment of weapons—the last consignment paid for with ...

President Biden on Friday defended the decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, saying the Ukrainians needed them. “It was a very difficult decision on my part. And by the way, I discussed this ...

In 2008, more than 100 nations signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a treaty that “prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions.” The United States did not ...

"These types of weapons are extremely dangerous," one researcher told ABC News. President Joe Biden has decided to send U.S. stocks of cluster munitions to Ukraine amid its fight against Russia, ...

(Kyiv, August 4, 2023) – Nine civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured in an apparent Russian cluster munition attack on July 8, 2023, in a residential district of the Ukrainian town of ...

Russian forces fired cluster munitions, a type of weapon that opens midair and scatters tens or hundreds of explosive submunitions over a wide area, on several occasions in Ukraine since the conflict ...

Here's what you need to know about cluster munitions, which shower a region in a deadly rain of "bomblets." Dan was a writer on CNET's How-To and Thought Leadership teams. His byline has appeared in ...