Submunitions are connected using a timer and explode closer to the ground or already on the ground, scattering fragments that attack enemy personnel or armored vehicles, such as tanks. Cluster munitions open at a given height, which depends on the area of ?the intended target, the submunitions contained inside spread over this area. They can be dropped from airplanes, they can be fired from artillery, rocket launchers, and naval guns. Ukraine denied the reports.Ĭluster munitions contain dozens to hundreds of smaller bomblets (they are called submunitions). In late 2022 Türkiye had begun sending Ukraine American-designed cluster munitions after months of Kyiv’s pleas to the Biden administration to provide them. Photographic evidence has already surfaced that the old Turkish M483A1 ammunition was secretly handed over to Ukraine. These 155mm shells will probably be the main cluster munitions delivered to Ukraine from the United States. The M483A1 shell contains 88 submunitions (M42 submunitions x 64 + M46 submunitions x 24). recent testing data."įor 155mm howitzers, the M864 shell contains 72 submunitions (48 M42 submunitions + 24 M46 submunitions). We are aware of reports out there from several decades ago that indicate that certain 155-mm DPICMs have higher dud rates, so we would be carefully selecting rounds with lower dud rates for which we have. Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder at a briefing on 06 July 2023 said "we have multiple variants of DPICMs in our stocks, and the ones that we are considering providing would not include older variants with dud rates that are higher than 2.35%. The danger to Ukrainians would be greater if Russia overtook the country, and if Moscow’s tanks rolled into Kyiv “because Ukraine does not have enough artillery, that is intolerable to us,” Sullivan said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl addressed reporters at the White House and Pentagon respectively 07 July 2023, stating that the US should meet Ukraine’s request notwithstanding risks to civilians. DPICM shells have a failure rate of 3% and are being replaced by C-DAEMs with less than 1% of failed sub-elements.
Although Ukraine, like the United States, is not a member of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the United States has a legal ban on the export of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1%. One obstacle to the transfer of DPICM was legislative. A single Dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) cluster artillery shell can do the job of 10 conventional high-explosive fragmentation shells when destroying most typical targets, which is extremely important in a situation where the supply of ammunition to Ukraine had faced enormous difficulties. Attributed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitionsīoth the Ukrainians and the Russians used cluster munitions during the full-scale war that began in February 2022.
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