Major munitions buys in the budget include:20,338 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) — $533 million.
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These aircraft typically carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, which are precision-guided air-to-surface munitions.
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The 216th Munitions Squadron at Ramstein air base in Germany got about 286 containers of munitions this month.
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But it exempts certain types of munitions that the Pentagon says it would nonetheless classify as cluster munitions.
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This month, the wing's 86th Munitions Squadron took delivery of more munitions than it has gotten in nearly 863 years.
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"This project has proven that it is possible to develop [insensitive munitions] and green munitions that perform better than current munitions and that will help to ease the environmental pressures on [ranges and training areas]," the report concludes.
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As such, the DoD wants to manufacture munitions out of naturally occurring biodegradable materials to eliminate the environmental hazard posed by used munitions.
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"We've decided not to move forward with some foreign military sales cases for air-dropped munitions, PGMs (precision-guided munitions)," the official said.
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The 2017 policy change stated that newly produced cluster munitions must have a dud rate of 2000 percent or less, but left open the use of older cluster munitions with higher dud rates, which allowed the United States to maintain its large cluster-munitions stockpile.
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The aircraft is armed with a 20 mm cannon as well as an integrated munitions launcher that allows it to store munitions internally to reduce drag.
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"The Department will retain cluster munitions currently in active inventories until the capabilities they provide are replaced with enhanced and more reliable munitions," the memorandum said.
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The slowdown of procurement for munitions comes as the US dropped 7,423 munitions onto Afghanistan in 2019 —the highest number of bombs released in nearly a decade.
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The Syrian military also has a variety of chemical-capable munitions—including grenades, aerial bombs, and improvised munitions—that it can use with little to no warning.
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Incendiary munitions, cluster bombs detailed in report In addition to attacks on hospitals, the report points to the repeated use of incendiary munitions and cluster bombs by Russia.
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The Chatham House report indicated that during the Iraq invasion in 85033, 68 percent of U.S. munitions were guided with space assets (such as laser-infrared and satellite guided munitions).
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Saboteurs set fire to a massive stockpile of munitions ready to ship from Black Tom Island, a munitions depot in New York Harbor — and the explosion was felt for miles.
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Photographs of the aftermath of another attack a week later, near the al-Tanf border crossing in southern Syria, showed cluster munitions remnants, including unexploded bomblets, or sub-munitions, HRW said.
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What the military has said about munitions levels According to military leaders, there was a shortfall in certain kinds of munitions, particularly precision-guided bombs, late in the Obama presidency and early in the Trump presidency -- after the US used tens of thousands of these munitions in the campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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" He noted that the Obama administration wouldn't sell "precision-guided munitions because the Saudis were using U.S.-provided munitions to repeatedly target civilians and humanitarian sites in their bombing campaign inside Yemen.
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Britain, a signatory to the international convention which prohibits use of the munitions, has been investigating whether the coalition dropped the BL 755 munitions in Yemen following an Amnesty International report in May.
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Left: A worker at an American munitions factory, circa 1918.
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Mistral says its suite of loitering munitions do just that.
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Automatic weapons, munitions and explosives were found with the group.
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The nature of the other munitions was not immediately known.
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That resulted in the treaties on cluster munitions, for example.
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All of the munitions have been in development for years.
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Between those two cities, the coalition alone dropped 0003,2000 munitions.
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What use are munitions if we do not have ventilators?
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"We'll be procuring munitions at the FY16 rates," he said.
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Soviet cluster munitions are not the only ones littering Afghanistan.
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One subset of the menace, cluster munitions, is singularly vicious.
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Amnesty said this was the first confirmed use of a British-manufactured cluster munitions since the adoption of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster bombs.
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Pentagon spokesman Tom Crosson acknowledged it has been years since the U.S. military has used any significant amount of cluster munitions and the new Pentagon policy puts emphasis on eventually shifting to safer cluster munitions.
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"These air strikes, mostly focused on Aleppo, have utilized a wide variety of deadly munitions, including barrel bombs, thermobaric bombs, incendiary munitions, cluster bombs and bunker busters," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The Navy proposed a conceptual change: a gun firing rocket-boosted GPS-guided shells, dubbed Extended Range Guided Munitions, with warheads initially designed to carry and distribute cluster munitions as far as 240 miles away.
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"Obama withheld precision-guided munitions because the Saudis were using U.S.-provided munitions to repeatedly target civilian and humanitarian sites in their bombing campaign inside Yemen, despite regular protests from the United States," Murphy wrote.
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We know that women worked in huge numbers in munitions factories.
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Women have been interviewed about their work in munitions and nursing.
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One missile full of Collaborative Cooperative munitions might hit the lot.
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Another was a mortar larger than similar munitions at Iraq's disposal.
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The Saudi-led coalition is fighting with Western warplanes and munitions.
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It's going to deliver munitions to some of the frontline troops.
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They have also dropped supply munitions to rebels in the province.
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The kits turn unguided bombs into precision munitions with navigation systems.
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They dropped 3,800 munitions on 3,700 targets, a base release says.
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"p," opposing the power of Wall Street munitions makers in the
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A key part of the $7.5 billion would go to munitions.
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In May, the Pentagon stopped delivering cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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Iran needs to stop the production of precision munitions in Syria.
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In the rubble, the remains of American munitions have been found.
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In Namibia, North Koreans built giant statues and a munitions factory.
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It can fire up to 18.6 miles out with normal munitions.
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But Crick and other munitions experts knew they were exceptionally hazardous.
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The CCM prohibits the use, stockpiling, and transfer of cluster munitions.
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It is still the Pentagon's main warplane for delivering atomic munitions.
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Operations at Malacky Air Base, including a regional munitions storage facility, will have $59 million cut from its regional munitions storage area, which falls under the European Deterrence Initiative umbrella, as do all operations in Slovakia.
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The two potential programs — external carriage and long bay options — would allow the B-1B to carry weapons externally, significantly increasing its magazine capacity for munitions, as well as adding larger, heavier munitions, such as hypersonic weapons.
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The second arrived with news that two United States Air Force F-15 jets had destroyed an American munitions bunker in Syria to prevent munitions and other equipment from falling into the hands of other armed groups.
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Cluster munitions contain submunitions, or bomblets, that disperse widely and kill indiscriminately.
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As of Tuesday, no munitions "or any other contaminations" had been found.
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We are sending billions to Ukraine in terms of arms and munitions.
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A munitions squad at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, loading bombs.
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A munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory, circa 1915.
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Munitions it confiscated exploded in 2011, causing the island's worst peacetime disaster.
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And the munitions will afford a new capability for engaging dispersed targets.
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Those marked "Winchester" signal a mission on which all munitions were dropped.
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David Head, the unit's munitions operations section chief, said in a release.
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The security services seized automatic weapons, munitions, and explosives from the group.
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Jenzen-Jones said the quality of Iranian munitions had improved of late.
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In the past, Reed opposed selling precision-guided munitions to the nation.
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We are also convinced the regime will continue to use such munitions.
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During World War I, munitions for the Woolwich Arsenal were stashed there.
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Armaments, munitions, and fighters were immediately used to prop up the regime.
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At the same time, conventional munitions could rain down on the South.
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Munitions like these often far outlast the conflicts they are used in.
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He operated the munitions systems, which by today's terms were rather primitive.
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The strikes included a B-52 Stratofortress dropping 24 precision-guided munitions.
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The U.S. assessments of these attacks are based on credible, public information showing victims with symptoms of nerve agent exposure, including pinpoint pupils, as well as munitions of a type that largely matches previously assessed regime chemical munitions.
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Britain, a signatory to an international convention that prohibits use of the munitions, has been investigating whether the coalition dropped the munitions, BL-755 bombs, in Yemen after a report in May by the rights group Amnesty International.
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It allows commanders to use older, existing cluster munitions — those with a failure rate greater than 1 percent — "until the capabilities they provide are replaced with enhanced and more reliable munitions," and it halts the destruction of the stockpile.
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He said munitions were selected to avoid causing harm beyond the selected target.
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"Inside Yarmouk, the fighting forces have been using indiscriminately large munitions," Gunness said.
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Munitions and missiles make up 8.8% of overall procurement in the budget request.
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The planned bridge would cross over the largest munitions dump in the world.
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However, most items related to human spaceflight are still on the Munitions List.
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How much of the invention did you take from your munitions magnate husband?
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But as important is the acquisition of "stand-off" munitions with long ranges.
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The proposed sale includes 14,640 bombs and guidance kits, along with other munitions.
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Security forces seized automatic weapons, munitions and explosives from the Islamic State cell.
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The use of cluster munitions and other indiscriminate weapons in civilian-populated areas.
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The Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor identifies 57 countries as threatened by mines.
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"Saudi Arabia is using U.S. munitions to deliberately hit civilian targets inside Yemen,"
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Thousands have died since 2015, often killed with American-supplied weapons and munitions.
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Where do you get munitions and spare parts for those planes and helicopters?
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Other photographic evidence points to the use of incendiary munitions and cluster bombs.
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In all, those munitions disgorged 13.7 million DPICM grenades on Iraq and Kuwait.
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Does it use heavy munitions and explosive weapons in urban areas, for example?
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Reserves of munitions, as well as water and food, are stored on base.
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Sadly, Afghanistan isn't the only country to harvest dangerous crops of unexploded munitions.
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That included 392 combat sorties and 42 precision-guided munitions dropped, Slaughter said.
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Here are some facts about cluster munitions and efforts to end their use around the world: (Sources: Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, Convention on Cluster Munitions, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs) Reporting by Pietro Lombardi; Editing by Katie Nguyen.
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I had other questions, too, like whether munitions could've been disturbed by the hurricane.
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She served as an aircraft and munitions maintenance officer in the US Air Force.
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America cannot retreat into its continental garden behind a hailstorm of precision-guided munitions.
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The bridge would reportedly be constructed across the largest munitions dump in the world.
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Germany still discovers more than 2,000 tonnes of live bombs and munitions every year.
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It can carry both unguided and guided munitions and has a very large payload.
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It was the first Saudi confirmation of the coalition's use of the cluster munitions.
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It was not immediately clear what munitions were used in the airstrike early Wednesday.
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Throughout the 2000s, satellites and other space-related technologies fell under the Munitions List.
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If the Soviets wanted to send a message to NATO, it usually involved munitions.
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Commanders claim they have the morale, fuel and munitions to keep going for months.
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It is a multi-role bomber, capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions.
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For starters, the Reaper can carry roughly double the munitions of the CH-5.
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The upper passages had been converted into a munitions dump for the Lebanese Army.
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In other words, Netscape was in the business of exporting munitions around the globe.
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Saudi Arabia has used American-supplied cluster munitions in Yemen, including in civilian areas.
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We slept in our vehicle on bloodstained stretchers among boxes of medicine and munitions.
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Once a hub of munitions factories, the town has lost jobs in recent decades.
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Tadao had worked in a munitions plant and made airplane components during the war.
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Yes, the coronavirus calls for a different bill of munitions, on a different timescale.
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In total, at least 18 incidents involving unexploded cluster munitions occurred during Desert Storm.
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By 1991 the Pentagon had queued up its stockpile for another cluster-munitions campaign.
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Can that work for nuclear weapons, which seem more strategically vital than other munitions?
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They toiled in mines and munitions factories across Asia and fought alongside Japanese troops.
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Some of the affected Air Force projects: Storage for $1 billion of munitions overseas.
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The US government has long recognized the negative impact of unexploded munitions including landmines, spending roughly $3.6 billion since 1993 to help dispose of excess weapons and munitions as well as clear landmines and explosive remnants of war from some 100 countries.
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Over the past year seven nations have joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning them.
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According to the note, the Saudi sales that are at risk are munitions and missiles.
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The bomb squad's robot deployed chemical munitions, "which led to the subject's surrender," police said.
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Authorities found weapons, munitions and explosives during those raids, the chief federal prosecutor's office said.
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Part of the rich valuation comes from demand for precision guided munitions in several conflicts.
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Dozens of barrel bombs and other munitions fell on the suburbs of Damascus, Syria's capital.
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The measures would block the sale of Raytheon Co precision-guided munitions and related equipment.
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Cluster munitions are delivered from the ground by artillery and rockets or dropped from aircraft.
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The nickname comes from the munitions' ability to instantly chop down huge swathes of forest.
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The cruise missile with its "nuclear-power energy unit" possesses advantages over conventionally-powered munitions.
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Brazil is progressively more isolated in its stance on both the A.T.T. and cluster munitions.
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Around 60 percent of the weapons used in the Afghan war were precision-guided munitions.
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The helicopter can also be configured to carry up to eight missiles, among other munitions.
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Munitions specialists deployed with the task force also practiced assembling BDU-50s — inert, unguided bombs.
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The overnight strikes targeted munitions depots, intelligence sites, a training camp and more, Conricus said.
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It said "terrorists" had been transporting the chemical munitions from their largest arsenal to Iraq.
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In 2008, a comparable treaty to outlaw cluster munitions was approved, taking effect in 2010.
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Egypt, like many other Middle East countries, has not signed the treaty banning cluster munitions.
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During the First World War, he did research on manganese, a key element in munitions.
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"The major question is how many of these munitions washed into the sea," Enck said.
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Those shells then travel 25 miles north to an Army munitions plant in McAlester, Okla.
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Companies in several nations, including Slovakia and the United States, have also produced loitering munitions.
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The treaty aims to stigmatize nuclear weapons as previous treaties marginalized landmines and cluster munitions.
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Take his decision last summer to sell billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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James Doolittle led a mission that dropped incendiary bomblets on Tokyo alongside high-explosive munitions.
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The camp was targeted by a missile loaded with cluster munitions, the White Helmets said.
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If these hypersonic weapons, however, are armed with conventional munitions, things get very complicated indeed.
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The regime also indiscriminately used cluster munitions on civilian targets in violation of international law.
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Afghans have been trained to maintain and repair aircraft, and to assemble and load munitions.
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Another example of a company with niche products attracting more robust values involved the recent sale of EaglePicher Technologies, LLC which makes the batteries used to power precision guided munitions like Paveway missiles and JDAM guidance kits that convert "dumb bombs" into "smart" munitions.
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"At the end of the of Obama administration, the Obama administration decided against selling precision-guided munitions to the Saudis because there was clear evidence the Saudis were using US munitions to specifically target civilians and specifically target humanitarian assets inside Yemen," Murphy said.
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By that point, it was clear that the Defense Department had failed to develop new cluster munitions with bomblets that had a dud rate of less than 297 percent — meaning the Pentagon would be obliged to destroy its cluster munitions stockpile without a sufficient replacement.
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That will go away, and so we'll be procuring preferred munitions at a lower rate, which not only affects us, all of us in engaged in the campaign, but it also affects our coalition partners who are relying on us, as well, for preferred munitions.
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Airstrikes with high-explosive munitions also hit the neighborhoods of al-Salehin, Qadi Askar and Qaterji.
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The fund cannot, for instance, invest in companies that produce tobacco, nuclear weapons and cluster munitions.
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The U.S. State Department has yet to formally notify Congress of the precision guided munitions deal.
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The US government has provided no proof the ships are carrying hidden missiles and other munitions.
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"For munitions, we continue to carefully manage production and stockpiles," Pentagon comptroller Elaine McCusker said Monday.
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U.S. officials say Russia used fewer precision-guided munitions than the United States and its allies.
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Also, the mechas are driven more like tanks with full crews, including engineers, munitions, and navigators.
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Russia said that the deaths were caused by the Syrian regime strike on the munitions depot.
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The Pentagon policy also prohibited purchasing weaponry that is banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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Reuters said the potential deal includes 14,640 bombs and guidance kits, as well as other munitions.
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Cluster munitions split open before impact and scatter hundreds of smaller bomblets over a wide area.
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However, you get more money for the mission if you save more of those munitions dumps.
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The legislation would have blocked the sale of Raytheon Co precision-guided munitions and related equipment.
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There's also a $50 million live-fire training range and a $52 million munitions storage facility.
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Its fact finding mission will determine whether banned munitions were used, but will not assign blame.
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The U.S. State Department has yet to formally notify Congress of the precision-guided munitions deal.
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In fact, it's begun destroying its stockpile of chemical munitions as part of a UN treaty.
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In addition, we've documented around 200 Russian attacks that have used cluster bombs and incendiary munitions.
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Loosened restrictions on drone strikes has also played a factor in the increase in munitions dropped.
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Last year, at least 1,415 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by landmines and unexploded munitions.
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Resetting your laptop is one of the most powerful munitions you've got in your troubleshooting armory.
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With his career as a screenwriter underway, Mr. Hashimoto quit his job at the munitions company.
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The unintentional casualties are civilians, often curious children, who pick up and step on old munitions.
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Now those munitions are back in the Trump arms package — which speaks volumes about this administration.
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The unintentional targets are civilians, often curious children, who pick up and step on these munitions.
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The transactions, which include precision-guided munitions and combat aircraft, would infuriate lawmakers in both parties.
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Our technical deficiencies — inability to operate at night, inaccuracy of unguided munitions — have since been corrected.
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Hundreds of munitions have been hauled away, most of them from a handful of burial pits.
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The mission will aim to determine whether banned munitions were used but will not assign blame.
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Hypersonic munitions that travel five times the speed of sound are on the drawing boards, too.
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It was the first confirmation by Saudi Arabia of the coalition's use of the cluster munitions.
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The provisions of these laws generally apply to items on the State Department's U.S. Munitions List.
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Other rebel groups have not been found in formal reports to have used banned toxic munitions.
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At least one hit a munitions store on the American side, causing a large secondary explosion.
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The devastating effects that dud bomblets from cluster munitions have inflicted on civilians is well documented.
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Buried inside were architectural drawings for underground munitions plants, to be built by concentration-camp inmates.
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They still profited from the war, though, by manufacturing munitions and selling them to both sides.
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He halted a planned $300 million sale of precision-guided munitions and curtailed some intelligence sharing.
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Last year alone, American aircraft dropped more than 6,800 munitions, according to the inspector general's report.
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The second act, with its immense love scene, is set largely in a munitions storage room.
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The report also cited the use of cluster munitions by coalition forces in residential areas, a delicate issue for the United States and Britain, which have supplied billions of dollars of arms and munitions to Saudi Arabia and which have worked with the coalition on its targeting.
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The crowd was dispersed using "less lethal munitions" and at least 26 protesters were arrested, police said.
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To investigate the munitions factories in Mosul, Spleeters made field visits even while the fighting was ongoing.
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Militaries around the world must also watch munitions stockpiles closely, some of which are buried inside tunnels.
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The Senate bill would apply specifically to all sales of air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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And the government hasn't provided any proof the ships are carrying hidden missiles or any other munitions.
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"It is out of the question that we load weapons or munitions for any war," Pastor said.
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Eurenco, an affiliate of Nexter, which produces munitions for the Caesar, did not immediately respond for comment.
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Beyond officers physically moving protesters back, Wyatt was not aware of any non lethal munitions being deployed.
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U.S. listed General Dynamics had been excluded from the fund in 2005 because it produced cluster munitions.
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The U.S. official said Russia used fewer precision-guided munitions than the United States and its allies.
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Stateoil said in a statement that the gas facility was hit by explosive munitions from a distance.
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The number of munitions dropped in April 2628 was the highest for any single month since 28500.
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Saudi Arabia, which has not signed the treaty, has acknowledged using the munitions once, in April 2015.
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Cluster munitions are containers that explode in the air to distribute smaller bombs over a large area.
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In October 2010, according to figures provided by AFCENT, US and coalition aircraft dropped roughly 1,043 munitions.
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At least three more people were killed later after handling unexploded cluster munitions left from the strike.
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The airstrikes were aimed at two military compounds and a munitions manufacturing site, according to the IDF.
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That is the highest number of munitions dropped since the Air Force began publishing data in 2012.
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The US-led coalition dropped some 1,642 bombs, missiles and other munitions on ISIS targets in April.
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Project documents say existing facilities won't adequately support the mission of the 36th Munitions Squadron on Guam.
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Removes special scrutiny for drones equipped with laser designators, which help guide munitions to a designated target.
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More than 100,000 munitions have been dropped; there have been more than 30,000 airstrikes and artillery strikes.
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The staff transferred the victims to an underground bunker, where doctors treated them as munitions rained down.
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Thus far, 162 nations have joined the land mine treaty and 119 the ban on cluster munitions.
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If anything, this is all the more reason to sell the Saudis more, not fewer, precision munitions.
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As a child, Saotome spent his days working in an iron factory, collecting scrap metal for munitions.
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Ariane Mnouchkine leading rehearsal at the Cartoucherie, a former munitions factory and her troupe's longtime Paris home.
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Marines are sometimes asked to visit museums and inspect items that conservators suspect may be live munitions.
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As munitions minister he had been outside the cabinet, able only to suggest projects from the sidelines.
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John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, touring a munitions plant in Paris.
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"It was decided that the munitions have to be cleaned completely from the mountain," Bohren told CNN.
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What they lacked in munitions they made up for in patience, as the pesh merga had learned.
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On April 3, munitions with a similar smell again hit the village, injuring at least a dozen.
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In this way, the use of cluster munitions from the very beginning was coupled to official lies.
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One Reaper stopped a public execution of ISIS prisoners in May using precision-guided munitions or PGMs.
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US aircraft dropped more than three times as many munitions on Afghanistan last year than in 2016.
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This is spurring Israel to use up precious munitions in a concerted campaign to forestall Iran's entrenchment.
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Instead, it would hold some in reserve to avoid giving their positions away and to conserve munitions.
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Most American cluster munitions held abroad appear to be positioned for a possible war with North Korea.
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The trouble with munitions, like artillery shells, is that they're designed to only explode in specific conditions.
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Washington (CNN)Two US Air Force F-15 jets conducted an airstrike targeting an American munitions storage bunker at a US base in Syria Wednesday in order to prevent the munitions and other equipment from falling into the hands of armed groups, two US defense officials told CNN.
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READ: North Korea claims successful test of rocket engine The munitions In its announcement, South Korea said the nuclear facility attack simulation will take place using a GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition, a kit that converts bombs that normally just free-fall from planes into guided munitions.
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Kim was addressing a rare munitions conference on Monday to laud the North's latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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Scrocca from the coalition explained that officers take care to use munitions that are proportional to their targets.
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A US B-52 bomber, along with armed drones, dropped 14 munitions on the camp, the official said.
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Such plants could be used to monitor groundwater seepage from buried munitions or waste that contains nitro-aromatics.
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A spokesman for Old Mutual said Hanwha has four separate companies, two of which do not produce munitions.
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Each aircraft type has its own specialized support gear, such as unique test stands or munitions-loading equipment.
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Saudi Arabia recently agreed to buy about $7 billion worth of precision guided munitions from U.S. weapons makers.
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Fallon stressed that Britain had sold the munitions to Riyadh in the 1980s, long before the 2008 convention.
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January 2016: An attack using cluster munitions in Sanaa killed at least one person and injured several others.
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It is also mulling the acquisition of munitions that would allow it to strike North Korea missile sites.
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The "smart bombs" deployed by the four-engine, 95-ton bombers are formally called Joint Direct Attack Munitions.
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Northrop's purchase of Orbital would help sharpen its focus on small space systems, launch vehicles, missiles and munitions.
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This approach is of particular relevance to the second ICD now in development focusing on weapons and munitions.
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Munitions and helicopters The Army is seeking an assortment of new equipment, including additional missiles, ammunition and helicopters.
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More than 2,000 tonnes of live bombs and munitions are found each year in Germany, even under buildings.
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The second man, former Soviet munitions officer Gennady Ivanov, 64, lives in Vilnius and voluntarily cooperated with prosecutors.
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Players charted a parabola meant to arc their munitions over mountains, through wind and onto the enemy's tank.
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Every year, 2,000 tons of unexploded munitions are unearthed on German soil, most of it from Allied bombing.
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More than 0003,000 tonnes of live bombs and munitions are found each year in Germany, even under buildings.
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The US is the major supplier of munitions to the Saudi Air Force, and also supplies military intelligence.
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People were being killed and maimed by landmines and cluster munitions, while here, the threat is very theoretical.
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In April, activists began regular protests outside the Providence, R.I., headquarters of Textron, a maker of cluster munitions.
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Since mid-2012, Syrian government forces have used both air-dropped and ground-launched cluster munitions, HRW said.
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Mr. Kahil recounted "nonstop bombing" by rockets and other artillery, including cluster munitions, which maim and kill indiscriminately.
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Following the assault, the compound was hit by more munitions to prevent the location from becoming a shrine.
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Like Iraq, these newly minted terrorists will have mountains of unused munitions cached all over their occupied homeland.
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Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries.
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But if you&aposre going to blow up chemical munitions in Syria, you have to ask for Congress.
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Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state allies depend on Washington for aircraft, munitions, training and in-flight refueling.
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Experts say chemical munitions have long been deployed along the demilitarized zone that separates the North and South.
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Defense Technology, which operates under Safariland, offers pepper spray, impact munitions, chemical agent devices, launchers, batons, and others.
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Army spokesmen insisted that the two had been killed by a misfired Palestinian rocket, not by Israeli munitions.
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The effects of these chemical munitions thus far have been limited to the immediate area where they land.
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Earlier this month Russia tested missiles with live munitions in the Baltic Sea, alarming Latvia and neutral Sweden.
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Security forces established a security perimeter while maintainers pulled their tools, set up chalks and placed munitions stands.
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The Air Force is developing lasers and super-fast hypersonic munitions to work with today's guns and missiles.
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Since then, Houthis have launched dozens of missiles, including shorter-range modified antiaircraft missiles and imported Iranian munitions.
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"This training area is not designated for munitions release," a statement from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base said.
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Ryan Dillon, said that as a matter of policy he could not discuss the use of specific munitions.
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The American inventory of the era, still stocked with cluster munitions from World War II, provided many options.
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The Senate also passed a second legislation to ban export of certain munitions to Hong Kong police forces.
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Within months he was considered a munitions expert, cited by outlets like NPR and the New York Times.
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Furthermore, inert projectiles would offer reliable breaching of substantial walls without the blast hazard of other breaching munitions.
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Now, the flying branch is adding new satellite communications and precision-guided munitions under a $500-million program.
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This year, the United States blocked a sale of cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia because of similar concerns.
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However, Textron has no plans to restart manufacturing cluster munitions, said a spokesman for the company, David Sylvestre.
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The threat these munitions pose to civilian populations at the time of an attack, as well as the tendency of the submunitions not to explode and remain active until they are cleared or destroyed, prompted 118 countries to ban their use and join the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008.
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Should Congress find itself unable to pass the annual National Defense Authorization Act by the November 21 deadline, the Air Force will be forced to eliminate 1,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition tail kits, 99 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, and 665 Small Diameter Bomb II munitions from its munitions-procurement plans.
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General Dynamics' combat system unit makes the medium-weight Stryker combat vehicle and also supplies weapons systems and munitions.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied any and all use of cluster munitions by Russian forces in Syria.
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The overall 2750 budget includes $13.9 billion for missiles and munitions, up about 17 percent from the prior year.
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If the offensive devolves into street-by-street fighting, the chances increase that regime forces will use chemical munitions.
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The weapons, which historically have had a high failure rate, are banned under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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Cluster munitions break up into bomblets that scatter across an area at least as great as a soccer field.
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" "We also load some air-to-air missiles, but the air-to-ground munitions are most used right now.
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"It is this administration's judgment that providing precision-guided munitions actually decreases the risk," he told a congressional hearing.
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Egypt recently seized a shipment of North Korean communications components used for guided munitions destined for Gaza, they said.
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Earlier this year Israeli military said they had attacked Iranian targets that included munitions stores in Damascus International Airport.
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They also discovered several unexploded munitions, some of them high-grade explosives, at the scene, the police spokesman said.
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But as with treaties banning land mines and cluster munitions, declaring nuclear weapons illegal creates a new international norm.
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It also said large underground storage areas are being built on the reefs, presumably to store munitions, it said.
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The official said the munitions were fired toward a guard tower and hit the south side of the airport.
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The three categories left -- categories one through three -- cover firearms, big guns such as cannons and howitzers, and munitions.
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In all, 16 coalition aircraft fired 22 munitions in airstrikes along a highway northeast of Palmyra, the statement added.
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According to US Air Forces Central Command, US aircraft dropped 948 munitions in Afghanistan during the month of September.
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The hypersonic munitions fly too low for ballistic missile defenses and too fast for traditional surface-to-air missiles.
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Homemade explosives, mines, munitions and other weapons used by Ukraine's military were discovered in the area, the statement said.
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Rather, its frontline combatants are programmers and hackers, the battlefield is cyberspace and the munitions are lines of code.
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A giant crater was caused "almost certainly [by] air dropped munitions" as opposed to artillery or mortars, he said.
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Cluster munitions are a type of weapon that distributes smaller weapons, called submunitions or bomblets, over a targeted area.
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"The global community has agreed that indiscriminate weapons such as land mines and cluster munitions should never be used."
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Firing 155-millimeter shells, these cannons can have a range up to 25 miles with special GPS-guided munitions.
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United Nations investigations have reported Syrian and Russian forces using cluster munitions in the seven-year-old Syrian conflict.
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Meanwhile, it aims to use numerous older planes to do what they do best: carry large loads of munitions.
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The Krauses were antiwar liberals in a town of munitions-factory workers and supporters of the war in Vietnam.
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Permanent land bases are considered more valuable than aircraft carriers, because they can withstand a great number of munitions.
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Thirty years after vacating the island, the Army disclosed that it had also scuttled poisonous munitions in surrounding waters.
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In 973, orders for tens of thousands of the Air Force's new CBU-87 Combined Effects Munitions came in.
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Cluster munitions are rarely demonstrated for civilians, though a handful of old video clips can be found on YouTube.
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A giant crater was caused "almost certainly (by) air dropped munitions" as opposed to artillery or mortars, he said.
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That strike was led by two B-2 bombers, which dropped about 100 precision-guided munitions on the camps.
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Military bomb disposal technicians have estimated that cluster munitions have a dud rate as high as about 20 percent.
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In the first four months of 2017, the US has dropped 14,192 rockets, bombs, and other munitions on ISIS.
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The nearby factory that tested munitions closed in 1970, but a collection of explosive devices was left behind, officials said.
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These included aerial bombs, air-to-surface rockets, cluster munitions, incendiary bombs, barrel bombs, and weapons delivering toxic industrial chemicals.
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Two munitions workers stand beside examples of the shells produced at the National Shell Filling Factory in England, circa 1917.
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Mistral's series of loitering munitions could aid the Corps on the battlefield by providing it a top-down attack capability.
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Afterward, U.S. forces fired precision standoff munitions from aircraft to destroy the compound, footage that was also shown to reporters.
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The cluster munitions, which disperse bomblets over a wide area, killed Essa al-Farasi, 16, on Wednesday, his family said.
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But using robots with explosives or munitions to root out or even kill suspects appears far less routine, experts say.
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The accord limiting how such weapons may be used in warfare is included in the Convention on Certain Conventional Munitions.
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There he hosts Chaguan for a fiery Sichuanese lunch in offices above an old munitions factory built into a cliff.
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" The report said that stockpile could be deployed "by modifying a variety of conventional munitions, including artillery and ballistic missiles.
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The Syrian-Russian joint military operations, which began on September 30, 2015, have also extensively used internationally banned cluster munitions.
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And in March 2013, a B-2 flew from Missouri and dropped inert munitions during training exercises over South Korea.
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The three resolutions would block the sale of Raytheon Co precision-guided munitions and related equipment to the two countries.
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The new rules broaden the definition of which types of munitions meet safety requirements beyond the 99 percent detonation rate.
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The measure would force a vote on the munitions portion of the defense package, but not the entire arms deal.
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Furthermore, Human Rights Watch identified remnants of the munitions used in the attack as a U.S.-made laser-guided bomb.
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Five hours later, the drone returned and the hospital was struck by munitions dropped from a separate fixed-wing aircraft.
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Among the targets were two munitions manufacturing and storage sites, the Israeli military said, as well as a military compound.
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Not far away is Building 257, a fortresslike bunker once used for munitions storage and, for a time, animal research.
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Daniel Abrams-Trust, the cruise missile flight chief for the 2nd Munitions Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
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Under President Trump, the US is ramping up production of tactical nuclear weapons, ostensibly to target troops and munitions supplies.
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A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt accidentally released munitions over Arizona on Thursday, according to an Air Force statement.
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This may disrupt plans to move Marines to Guam from Japan and to modernize munitions storage for the Air Force.
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The Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty began in 2008, prohibits the use, transfer and stockpile of the weapon.
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Fuzes: An excess capacity of fuzes — used on all missile programs and munitions — limits competition and improvements to the technology.
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In 1944, a load of munitions exploded at the station as the weapons were being loaded onto a cargo vessel.
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The daughter of assimilated Jews, she married a munitions magnate who came with a castle and did business with Mussolini.
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Last summer, Mr. Menendez blocked the sale by Raytheon of $2 billion worth of precision-guided munitions to gulf nations.
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Russian bombs have actually targeted US-aligned Syrian rebels, and have directed a relatively small percentage of munitions toward ISIS.
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It mainly offered a treacherous future in mines or munitions factories, and even those professions were plagued by mass layoffs.
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When thinking about the Civil War, after the Union army hit Richmond, the largest producer of munitions left was Selma.
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The Trump administration reversed that decision, arguing that the Saudis needed the precision-guided munitions to help avoid hitting civilians.
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After all, Saudi Arabia and its gulf allies depend heavily on Washington for aircraft, munitions, training and in-flight refueling.
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"[It] puts a significant demand signal on our missile systems, our sensors and precision munitions across the board," Kennedy said.
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Mr. Fallon stressed that Britain had sold the munitions to Riyadh in the 1980s, long before the convention in 2008.
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These munitions are banned by an international treaty — a treaty that neither the United States nor Saudi Arabia has signed.
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China, Russia and North Korea have provided Iran with technology and munitions, and Iran has produced remote-controlled drones domestically.
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The second measure would bar the sale of munitions such as tear gas and rubber bullets to Hong Kong police.
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He also signed another bill banning the sale of munitions like tear gas and rubber bullets to Hong Kong police.
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The attack on al-Ma'jalah was the last known battlefield use by the Pentagon of any of its cluster munitions.
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Militias of barbers and of graphic artists sprang up, reinforced by the first influx of Soviet munitions and international volunteers.
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In Superman #1 from June 1939, the hero puts an end to the ill dealings of a corrupt munitions manufacturer.
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" He is similarly dismissive of the lingering danger of booby traps and unexploded munitions: "We hardly find IEDs any more.
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Soon they turned up not munitions, but a mass grave, with the remains of as many as 21945 Soviet soldiers.
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Grier reportedly spent $500,000 developing the L4 and building the initial copy under the auspices of his company FD Munitions.
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They say the Saudis have American software designed to help them determine whether certain munitions might cause destruction beyond the target.
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Human Rights Watch and other groups have previously accused Saudi Arabia of using cluster munitions in Yemen, including in a Jan.
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According to local media, around 188,000 tons of munitions were kept in the warehouse, including rockets for "Grad" multiple grenade launchers.
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"Tasers are not risk free but they are proven safer than batons, fists, take downs, tackles, and impact munitions," said Tuttle.
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It's a 59 percent rise in the number of munitions released during the same time period last year, Airwars points out.
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The inquiry found that "multiple types of munitions deployed from more than one aircraft and aircraft type" struck the aid convoy.
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The lawmakers aim to block about $500 million of the sale, the portion including precision-guided munitions and other offensive weapons.
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Tehran is able to affect the outcome of various conflicts by controlling the spigot of men, money, and, most importantly, munitions.
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Authorities have yet to retrieve all bodies from a battle zone that is still littered with unexploded munitions and homemade bombs.
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The Pentagon requested $21.3 billion worth of munitions in its 2021 budget, which is 8.8% of total procurement in the request.
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Local police closed the crash site for the investigation and bomb disposal units were called in to safely remove the munitions.
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Deterrence is a great scarred old whale of a bomber which may or may not have nuclear munitions ready to load.
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They point to campaigns against anti-personnel landmines, cluster munitions, and biological and chemical weapons as evidence that this can succeed.
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"The In Salah Gas asset in Krechba was hit by explosive munitions fired from a distance," Statoil said in a statement.
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The Guardian reported that police said the missile lacked its explosive charge but could be easily re-armed by munitions specialists.
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This, on top of an additional $7 billion in munitions sales that sources have told Reuters may be in the pipeline.
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" The Russian Defense Ministry had earlier said on its Facebook page that the strike hit "workshops, which produced chemical warfare munitions.
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They also recently hit an ISIS chemical munitions factory in Mosul, removing a "significant chemical threat to innocent Iraqis," he said.
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Now, he must be equally decisive by sending cruise missiles or whatever munitions are required to reduce the crematoria to rubble.
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"The database also shows the kind of munitions that IS are using are nearly always modified in some way," he said.
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The list also includes $85033 million for ground combat items and infrastructure, including more munitions, equipment, surveillance systems and facilities sustainment.
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American officials have said they provide assistance to the coalition, including intelligence from reconnaissance drones, airborne fuel tankers and advanced munitions.
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LONDON — More than seven decades after World War II ended, unexploded munitions remain a hazard in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.
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It will be some time before upgraded Tomahawks (or other munitions in the works) make their way into fleet missile silos.
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The United States recently made news when the last remaining domestic manufacturer of cluster munitions, Textron Systems, decided to discontinue production.
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The US has been heavily bombing targets in Afghanistan this year, having released 4,483 munitions as of the end of August.
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As the munitions reach the terminal phase of their flight, the megaconstellation of satellites directly guides them into the Chinese fleet.
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Diverted spending also will affect the Air Force, including $45.1 million for two projects to update 70-year-old munitions storage.
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In Dugway's first few decades, the base worked mostly on offensive weaponry: biological and chemical munitions designed to directly attack enemies.
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He also refused to rule out using such munitions on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and in Europe.
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"Definitive lab tests conclude: No mustard agent present in munitions fired at Qayyarah West AB Sept 20," tweeted Air Force Col.
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In those theatres of war, more precise, smaller-impact radius munitions existed and better monitoring and verification of targets was possible.
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The March 23, 2017 munitions blast prompted the evacuation of 20,000 people—an incident later blamed on a Russian-commandeered drone.
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The recent uptick in reports of cluster munitions closely matches the period after Moscow began an air campaign in Syria, however.
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As for the new super-munitions, just one, the RS-28 ICBM, is truly practical and likely to enter mass production.
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Each day, they were marched from their camp through the town to the munitions factory where they worked the night shift.
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Iron Man, in civilian life Tony Stark, a billionaire munitions mogul, argued that the Avengers should answer to the United Nations.
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In the same month, the US government reauthorized the export of Paveway munitions to Saudi Arabia, ending Obama's December 2016 ban.
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The aircraft had largely been stripped of their armaments so that they could carry even more clusters of small incendiary munitions.
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In June, a key vote on arms sales to the Saudis narrowly passed, and future munitions sales have been held up.
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Over the last four months, American warplanes dropped 1,874 munitions in Afghanistan, compared to 524 for the same period in 2016.
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The Saudi government has continued to pay the United States for munitions, maintenance and training of its forces under previous contracts.
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They say the strikes are punishment for killing dozens of people, many of them women and children, with banned toxic munitions.
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Other countries where casualties from cluster munitions were reported included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Serbia, South Sudan and Vietnam.
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Most female munitions workers were young, single and childless, but a sizable minority were married and in their peak reproductive years.
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Such enormous munitions may make a big blast, but they are not guaranteed to wipe out enemy fighters burrowing deep underground.
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What weapons are actually banned by international agreements are chemical weapons, certain incendiary weapons, and cluster munitions, to name a few.
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The first is a deep dive into the history of cluster munitions and an exploration of what happened at As Salman.
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Some of their airstrikes have dropped cluster munitions, which can pose a long-term threat similar to that of land mines.
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Similarly, American reliance on cluster munitions, which peaked in the early stages of the 2003 Iraq war, has all but disappeared.
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The munitions battering Aleppo have escalated to bunker buster bombs, incendiary phosphorous shells, and cluster bomblets, according to eyewitnesses and activists.
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The North Korean leader was speaking at the close of a rare two-day munitions conference to celebrate the Hwasong-15.
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Through binding international agreements, the international community has previously adopted prohibitions against land mines, cluster munitions and biological and chemical weapons.
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Waters himself extensively analysed Islamic State's drone operations in a February investigation titled Death From Above: The Drone Bombs of the Caliphate, throwing light on the finer details of the types of munitions and weapons release systems used by IS. Waters' latest investigation, however, emphasizes the terror group's wide use of drone-deployed munitions through images alone.
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Perez says his team stole about 26 AK-103's and more than 3,000 munitions for the rifles, as well as pistols.
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The base is operated by the German Luftwaffe but the U.S. Air Force&aposs 702nd Munitions Support Squadron is also stationed there.
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"For too long, the Obama administration has not been holding countries receiving US military munitions accountable in the Middle East," said Paul.
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Cluster munitions release smaller "bomblets" that cover a wider area than regular bombs, and are criticized for causing damage beyond intended targets.
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Cluster munitions were "pervasively used" and air-dropped into densely-populated areas, it said, amounting to the war crime of indiscriminate attacks.
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The new Textron bombs fall under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, however, making them illegal in the eyes of most rights groups.
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With these carbon nanotubes within their leaves, the plants could detect nitro-aromatics, the chemical compound found in landmines and buried munitions.
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This light can be read by an infrared camera and relayed back to a computer to signal the presence of hidden munitions.
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The State Department accused him of violating export-control laws that prohibit disclosing technical data about military equipment and munitions to foreigners.
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They destroyed a number of these dumps, in one case setting off explosions which blew up a staggering 70,000 tonnes of munitions.
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Cluster munitions explode in the air and scatter smaller "bomblets" over a huge area that detonate when stepped on or picked up.
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Rights group Amnesty International also this week cited Aleppo residents who said they had witnessed the use of internationally banned cluster munitions.
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A hotline will also be established between the leaders of two countries that have exchanged more munitions than words in recent years.
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When military forces occupied schools, they often destroyed school furniture and equipment and left behind heavy artillery or unused munitions, HRW said.
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Japan's missile force has been limited to anti-aircraft and anti-ship munitions with ranges of less than 300 km (186 miles).
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KAIST and Hanwha Systems, one of two South Korean makers of cluster munitions, launched their defence and artificial intelligence project in February.
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Thanks to Rosie's "We can do it!" attitude, they built aircrafts, munitions, and other goods of immediate importance towards the war effort.
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Karns said the bombers would enable US forces to drop one or two munitions in an area, rather than use carpet bombing.
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The U.S. military had hoped to transition to cluster munitions that explode at least 99 percent of time, greatly reducing the risks.
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Reports of civilian casualties in Yemen resulting from the use of cluster munitions have generated some conversation among lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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McGovern is co-sponsor of the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act, a bill he has been trying to make law since 2007.
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Inside the historic Fort Jay, built in 1808, there's a magazine where they used to store powder kegs, cannonballs, and other munitions.
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Up to 40 rounds of munitions hit the airport, according to a US military official, 29 of which were rocket-propelled grenades.
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Karns said the bombers would enable U.S. forces to drop one or two munitions in an area, rather than use carpet bombing.
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The Syrian military retains expertise from its traditional chemical weapons agent program to both use sarin and produce and deploy chlorine munitions.
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The Observatory said nine civilians were killed after midnight by bombardment and reported helicopters dropping barrel bombs - improvised munitions filled with explosives.
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The budget should address programmatic shortfalls including buying more critical munitions, funding facilities sustainment at a higher rate and growing force structure.
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" ... our people, especially our military and munitions industry, are saying we must never give up nuclear capabilities", it said, according to Yonhap.
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In May, Washington suspended sales to Riyadh of cluster munitions, which release dozens of bomblets and are considered particularly dangerous to civilians.
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RDM manufactures and supplies selected munitions and explosive related products for armed and police forces in South Africa and around the world.
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Chlorine munitions were dropped on a city in northern Syria in February, according to an international chemical weapons watchdog report on Wednesday.
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Thermal Batteries: One company is making the vast majority of thermal batteries, which are used in all missiles and precision-guided munitions.
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His father had worked in munitions and the family became incredibly wealthy trading repurposed nuclear weapons initially slated for disarmament and disposal.
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The United States' reliance on cluster munitions has also waned, having peaked in 2003 in the early days of the Iraq war.
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That includes a $1.29 billion sale of precision munitions announced in November 2015 and specifically meant to replenish stocks used in Yemen.
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The longest range missiles in Japan's arsenal, which includes anti-aircraft and anti-ship munitions, have ranges of less than 300 kilometres.
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Cases of uniformed mannequins, and a large collection of gas masks, munitions and propaganda posters, precede an entrance into a reconstructed dugout.
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An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the position held by Middle East countries regarding the treaty banning cluster munitions.
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He has seen scores of teams disbanded, and trucks and equipment that could be used to clear dangerous munitions sit gathering dust.
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That decision blocked the sale by Raytheon of about 16,000 guided munitions kits, which upgrade so-called dumb bombs to smart bombs.
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The civil carnage also remains a liability for the U.S., which supports the Saudi-led coalition and provides warplanes, munitions and intelligence.
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There are lingering questions about the types of munitions that hit the ships, and time should be given for a thorough investigation.
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Additionally, defense analysts point to the Navy's prioritization and funding of newer technologies — notably precision-guided munitions from aircraft — over naval gunfire.
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Last year, however, the Pentagon reversed that commitment, arguing that cluster munitions provided "an effective and necessary capability to engage area targets."
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In its development of new munitions like the GBU-69, the military has also come up with new ways to launch them.
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Many potential collaborators had come to the studio armed with sleek, brassy Top 40 munitions in the style of Fifth Harmony hits.
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The civilian carnage is also a liability for the U.S., which supports the Saudi-led coalition and provides warplanes, munitions and intelligence.
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She was later sent to Torgau, a camp in Saxony attached to a munitions and explosives factory, along with 500 other prisoners.
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Wittman himself said moving the LCS dollars to munitions would put money "and the capability that we need today" on the sidelines.
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Was it carrying a secret cargo of munitions for the British war effort, and if so, did that help doom its passengers?
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Able and I did our best to shield our casualties from harm and covered their ears during impact of the large munitions.
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Once the cluster munitions were in the inventory, the military found other uses for them to fight conventional foes and militants alike.
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In September, the Air Force dropped more bombs and other munitions in Afghanistan than in any other month in nearly a decade.
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Dropped from aircraft or fired from the ground, each cluster bomb opens up mid-air, releasing hundreds to thousands of sub-munitions.
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While enhanced blast munitions from shoulder-fired launchers arguably offer dramatically improved terminal effects, these require firers to expose themselves to engage.
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" In Eastern Ghutah, the commission made chilling findings against the Assad government about the "use of prohibited chemical weapons and cluster munitions.
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Zimmermann had been under investigation for three years, accused of "munitions export without a license" for posting the software source code online.
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Thanks to this cultural exchange, British academia is enriched and Iran experiences great leaps forward in the fields of medicine, mathematics and munitions.
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Prosecutors say the devices required authorization from the U.S. Department of State before being exported since they were on the U.S. Munitions List.
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Nearly all military munitions—from rifle cartridges to aircraft bombs, regardless of the country of origin—are engraved and marked in some way.
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In addition to THAAD, the kingdom looks to buy Pac-25.9 missiles, Black Hawk helicopters, munitions, C-130 aircraft and littoral combat ships.
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Equally troubling, especially in Syria, is the extraordinary amount of munitions dropped on urban areas, mostly by the Syrian regime and its backers.
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The majority of the civilian casualties came from the two compounds at the end of the alley where the munitions depot had exploded.
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In one of the worst attacks, Turkish munitions landed near a school in Salhiye where displaced civilians were sheltering at about 7 a.m.
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The rights groups criticize use of the munitions in populated zones because they can kill and maim by burning people to the bone.
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President Donald Trump likely will claim that Saudi Arabia and the UAE need new munitions because they face repeated attacks from Houthi rebels.
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But when the Navy cut back its order from 28 warships to three, the costs associated with the destroyers and its munitions skyrocketed.
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The report also noted China's global profile in the supply of certain kinds of electronics as well as chemicals used in U.S. munitions.
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The Saudi-led coalition, which entered the war on Mr. Hadi's behalf and has United States backing, routinely drops munitions on residential areas.
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He said it would bring synergies primarily to three areas: long-range precision rockets, active protection for land-based systems, and guided munitions.
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Nor is Russia able to deploy enough precision-guided munitions to make air power count for much in such a densely packed city.
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Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Al Franken of Minnesota to block the sale of $510 million of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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In the January interview, Asiri specifically denied reports that Saudi Arabia used cluster munitions on a civilian neighborhood in the city of Sanaa.
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The man, played by GIRLS's Christopher Abbott, claims he's virus-free, that he has munitions, and a family of his own to protect.
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For the first time, players had robust control over the variables of the match, everything from wind speed to their tanks munitions loadout.
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When the United States deployed similar munitions in the past, the psychological effect was at least as important as the actual physical impact.
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His coal plant stands on the grounds of a former Krupp munitions factory, where people in forced labor produced ammunition for Nazi Germany.
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When the first iron furnace was opened, the area became instrumental in producing munitions during the War of 1812 and the American Revolution.
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Administration and congressional sources confirmed that the informal 40-day review period to sell the munitions to the two countries was under way.
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The resolutions voted on Wednesday cover Paveway precision-guided munitions for the Saudis and Emiratis, as well as systems to detonate the bombs.
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The industrial base and academy will need to make serious investments in rocketry, materials science, and plasma-penetrating radio waveforms for hypersonic munitions.
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But if the Democratic Party internalizes the lessons of Yemen, it will have to do more than end munitions sales to Saudi Arabia.
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Cluster munitions too have a very relevant extra level of depth, by simulating random malfunctioning bomblets that stay behind as landmines of sorts.
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A second U.S. bill to bar the export of certain munitions to Hong Kong police was also passed by both chambers of Congress.
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James found himself on a ship in Italy loaded with high explosives and moored next to a munitions depot when German bombers attacked.
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As part of the war effort, she took a job at the Radioplane Munitions Factory, helping to build air-crafts for military use.
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In anticipation, the Navy installed updated guns in 2100 that could fire both the older unguided rounds and the Extended Range Guided Munitions.
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"The Saudi military is dependent on American spare parts, logistics and munitions," noted Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution.
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The mines would also have a self-destruct feature that could be manually triggered so that the munitions didn't detonate later by mistake.
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Mr. Kim was also accompanied by Jo Yong-won and Yu Jin, top officials from the Munitions Industry Department of his Workers' Party.
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In the rush to rebuild after the war, Germans often just buried the munitions, so many of them are only turning up now.
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An earlier version of this article misstated when the Syrian government began using cluster munitions in the civil war that began in 2011.
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Turkey, the conduit for foreign fighters and munitions into rebel ranks, absorbed 3.6 million Syrian refugees and hosts the world's largest refugee population.
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Government officials also showed CNN a handwritten manual detailing instructions for how to build incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus munitions, amongst other things.
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The group added that it had identified US-made munitions at the sites of at least 24 other "unlawful coalition attacks" in Yemen.
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So far this year, the United States has dropped nearly twice as many munitions in Afghanistan as it did during all of 2016.
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To that end, Mr. Kim outlined "the duties of the fields of foreign affairs, munitions industry and armed forces," the news agency reported.
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Between 2001 and 2002, the United States dropped roughly 1,228 cluster munitions of its own in the country, killing at least 60 civilians.
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Police said that their earlier belief that war munitions had been found on the scene had not been borne out on closer inspection.
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The weapons are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which has been signed by 119 states and came into force in 2010.
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Cluster munitions include a wide variety of rockets, bombs, missiles and artillery projectiles that scatter smaller weapons, called submunitions, over a target area.
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Last year, American aircraft dropped 113,632 bombs, missiles and other munitions in Afghanistan, up from 4,361 in 2017 and 1,337 the year before.
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The toll in human lives from careless use of these weapons is many multiples of that caused by land mines and cluster munitions.
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The monitoring body determined that the "construction of any munitions factory or related military facilities" is prohibited under existing resolutions targeting the DPRK.
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Cluster munitions alone caused 266 known casualties in 21991, more than twice the toll of the previous year, according to Cluster Munition Monitor.
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The group also accused Russian warplanes of using cluster munitions, weapons so dangerous to civilians that they have been banned by 118 countries.
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But witnesses told OPCW investigators that the munitions were dropped in barrel bombs from a helicopter, a report released by the OPCW showed.
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"What's different now than when the time the A-10 was conceived is the use of precision munitions and the ability of a wide variety of aircraft to put a munition-like, small-diameter bomb exactly where they want it to go," said Kendall, who pointed out that such munitions let platforms like the B-1 bomber provide close air support.
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Sensitive to the criticism, the United States has severely restricted exports of cluster munitions and has sought to improve technology to minimize collateral damage.
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Modern near peer adversaries increasingly possess long range sensors and precision-guided munitions, a phenomenon which will require much more operational diversity from ARGs.
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In one instance, Spleeters checked the flight records of an aircraft that was supposed to be carrying 12 tons of munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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Congressional sources say the Trump administration is on the verge of notifying Congress of the proposed sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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"Actually our munitions, the fact that the whole building collapsed, actually contradicts our involvement," said U.S. Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, addressing Pentagon reporters.
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" A spokesman for the campaign against ISIS also said at the time that the mission "is not affected because of a lack of munitions.
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Multiple Mistral munitions could loiter overhead while a ground operator need only to select and identify a target for it to destroy, Gez said.
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With the help of men, planes and munitions from Hitler and Mussolini, Franco defeated the Soviet-backed Republicans to take power in April 1939.
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Triumph began manufacturing fireworks at the site in 1933 and then expanded to make munitions and explosives for the military, according to the EPA.
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The Albuquerque police's bomb squad in that instance was used to deploy "chemical munitions," according to an official police department report at the time.
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The algos helped us to spot diseases so that we might live longer and toil the more in the munitions factories and water mines.
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The $510 million munitions sale is part of the $110 billion arms agreement that Trump touted during his visit to Saudi Arabia last month.
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Specifically, he said the military was running low on critical munitions such as small bombs and anti-air warfare weapons used by fighter aircraft.
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The package is expected to include big-ticket items including Littoral Combat Ships, THAAD missile defense systems, armored personnel carriers, missiles, bombs and munitions.
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The package is expected to include U.S. missiles, bombs, armored personnel carriers, Littoral Combat Ships, terminal high altitude area defense missile systems and munitions.
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The army is also using more elephant rockets - inaccurate improvised munitions often made from gas canisters and fired on a high trajectory - insurgents said.
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In that case the munitions were free: Albania donated them to earn political credit with Washington, says Evelyn Farkas, a former American defence official.
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A few startups have experimented with drones that use a technology called LIDAR, an optical version of radar, to scour countryside for unexploded munitions.
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The victims included brothers, 9 and 12, both goat herders, who had played with munitions they found in a valley in northern Hajjah Province.
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A Defense Department policy requires that use of cluster munitions with a failure rate of greater than 1 percent be phased out by 2018.
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A spokesman for Cameroon's Defense Ministry, Colonel Didier Badjeck, said 12 hostages were freed and munitions and armored vehicles were seized during the operation.
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US officials have claimed direct Iranian involvement in the attack, the first large-scale use of cheap guided munitions on a Saudi oil facility.
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The resolutions voted on Wednesday cover Paveway precision-guided munitions for the Saudis and Emirates, as well as fuzing systems to detonate the bombs.
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The US military had initially planned to stop using cluster munitions, but these plans were put on hold until suitable alternatives could be developed.
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The administration has not notified Congress of a sale to the Saudis, but a precision-guided munitions sale has long been in the works.
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The ground was sown with every manner of land mine, from small antipersonnel devices the size of tuna fish tins to hefty antitank munitions.
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The world's chemical weapons watchdog has documented systematic use of banned munitions in Syria's civil war, including nerve agent sarin and sulfur mustard gas.
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The system includes radars and missile-launchers and can shoot down airplanes, helicopters, drones, and even incoming precision-guided munitions (PGMs) like cruise missiles.
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Children made up one third of overall casualties, and 80 percent of those from unexploded munitions, according to the United Nations Mine Action Service.
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In May, Washington suspended sales to Riyadh of cluster munitions, which release dozens of bomblets and are considered particularly dangerous to civilians, officials said.
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"He was his brother's driver, the quartermaster sourcing deadly material and the munitions technician in those months running up to the attack," he added.
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Munitions experts in Germany have safely defused seven unexploded bombs from World War II that were found on the site of Tesla's new factory.
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The troops marched north to Danbury, where they destroyed a munitions depot, and left a wake of destruction on their return to the shore.
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Moscow views U.S. allegations that it uses unguided munitions in Syria as "totally unfounded", Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing.
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The Air Force is expected to possess a great many old weapons in the 2030s — even as it keeps acquiring new drones and munitions.
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The Obama administration has quietly supported the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, providing intelligence, airborne fuel tankers and munitions.
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Even during the Iraq war, which saw the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers from Iranian munitions, keeping proxy militias under control was difficult.
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Ethiopia had arms and equipment from the Soviet Union and the United States, while the Eritreans were forced to capture munitions from their enemies.
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Ms. Rosenberg and her mother survived the war — she hid with a gentile family, and her mother endured forced labor at a munitions plant.
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The dud that killed Tuttle was a feature of ranges struck by combined effects munitions in the early years of the fight against terrorism.
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" The policy notes the lack of a more reliable munition, and goes so far as to include cluster munitions among its "best available capabilities.
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In the meantime, the Pentagon should revert to its 2008 policy, which, while still far from international standards, restricted the use of cluster munitions.
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The budget also asks for $2202 billion for space-based systems, $2628 billion for missiles and munitions and $28500 billion for missile defense programs.
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Four years ago, the discovery of tons of unexploded munitions along a cable route led to costly delays for a German offshore wind farm.
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Kim has been pushing to modernize production lines at munitions factories and replace aging weapons and technology since he took power in late 2011.
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Under a 22.2 agreement, the Pentagon maintains a stockpile of more than 21.5 million cluster munitions, containing over 90 million bomblets, in South Korea.
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The jets dropped what is believed to be the equivalent of U.S. 500-pound bombs and possibly cluster munitions, according to the U.S. defense official.
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The new munitions come in three different types that vary in range from a few hundred feet to nearly half a mile, according to Spleeters.
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The Su-34 or Fullback is bigger, sports a very different front section, and is capable of precision bombing with laser- or optically-guided munitions.
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Of course there were problems in Syria (including a lack of enough smart munitions), but the Russians defied Western expectations and their own track record.
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Rosenberg lost an arm in a German munitions factory, but otherwise is in relatively good shape, and said she is fortunate to be living independently.
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An estimated 20 percent of those munitions didn't detonate, joining the untold numbers of mines and other explosives left behind by soldiers on both sides.
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Citing sources, online investigative site Disclose said on Tuesday the cargo to be loaded at the port of Marseille-Fos included munitions for Caesar howitzers.
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A strong first step would be Congress' support for partner capacity building efforts to assure critical munitions, military facilities and strengthened cooperation with our allies.
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The DoD has requested $21.3 billion in munitions, including $6 billion for conventional ammunition, $4 billion for strategic missiles and $11.3 billion for tactical missiles.
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The Air Force has been rapidly depleting its war time inventory levels with over 23,223-plus missiles and bomb-related munitions used since August 23.
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"The seabed is full of armaments and lots of unexploded munitions down there from World War Two when it was all dumped there," he explained.
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In London, British defense minister Michael Fallon confirmed in parliament that the coalition had dropped "a limited number" of UK-supplied cluster munitions in Yemen.
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Beyond things like increasing intelligence sharing, U.S. officials are moving closer to approving a sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia blocked under Obama.
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None of these countries are signatories of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of the weapons, it said.
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They flew to Deir al-Zor region, 450 km (270 miles) northwest of Damascus, and dropped 18 tonnes of munitions on the site, it said.
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Their joint military operation in Syria has attacked hospitals and schools, used internationally banned cluster munitions and incendiary weapons, and otherwise carried out indiscriminate attacks.
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The company also builds cluster munitions, banned by international treaty (although many nations abstain from this ban, including South Korea, the US, Russia, and China).
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Residents in both towns blamed Russian strikes, saying the planes deployed were more numerous and the munitions more powerful than the Syrian military typically used.
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The Army wish list seeks $2.3 billion for munitions, including $1.3 billion for Patriot surface-to-air missiles and an additional $800 million for ammunition.
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The proposed arms deal also is said to include about $1 billion worth of munitions from Raytheon, including armor-piercing warheads and laser-guided bombs.
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The funds were needed because cuts eliminated spare parts, slashed maintenance, reduced munitions supplies and delayed the modernization of aircraft, ships and tanks, she said.
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Scaparrotti has frequently advocated for the U.S. to counter Russia's aggressive behavior, saying in March that EUCOM hopes to obtain more troops, systems and munitions.
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The army is also using more elephant rockets - inaccurate and improvised munitions often made from gas canisters and fired on a high trajectory - insurgents said.
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Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Electric and Raytheon are all contractors on the Apache sale, while Raytheon is the primary contractor for the tank munitions sale.
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The Pentagon says the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has the weapons it needs, even as munitions supplies run low.
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"Some of the stuff we would like to see in the future is the ability to incorporate some of our higher-caliber munitions," he said.
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The Russians also have more than 28503,22019 tons of weapons and munitions in this tiny breakaway region, located just 30 miles from our capital, Chisinau.
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She had no time for friends, dates or sororities, she wrote; instead, as a student, she worked nights at a munitions factory test-firing guns.
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The Royal Air Force's base at Fairford is part of the European Deterrence Initiative, and it's losing $19 million intended for a munitions holding area.
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It's losing $52 million for earth-covered weapons magazines, as well as $50 million for a machine gun range, and $45 million for munitions igloos.
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The three resolutions vetoed by Trump covered Paveway precision-guided munitions for the Saudis and Emiratis, as well as fuzing systems to detonate the bombs.
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Raytheon, Boeing – The two defense contractors were reportedly selected to sell about $7 billion in munitions to Saudi Arabia, according to sources quoted by Reuters.
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More than four decades on, the country grapples with millions of cluster munitions and other unexploded ordnance devices that kill and maim dozens each year.
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The new munitions do, however, "introduce additional uncertainties and risks" in the US-Russian relationship, Pavel Podvig, an independent expert on Russian weaponry, told me.
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Two of seven suspects were detained and weapons, munitions and explosives were found during the raids, Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for the office, told reporters.
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It did say that the Bonus munitions are compliant with the Defense Department's policy, but it will not perform any additional tests to verify that.
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"This is like the smoking gun, because it's very obvious that these munitions were dropped from a fighter jet," he said in a telephone interview.
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Mr. Christofias was blamed for ignoring warnings that the munitions, which had been sitting outdoors in the Mediterranean heat for two years, could become unstable.
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Though Moscow denied it at the time, Russia was supplying munitions to rebels in eastern Ukraine, and many Russians were fighting for the separatists there.
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This research-and-development failure has resulted in 36 new warships with advanced deck guns, but not the specialized munitions they were designed to fire.
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Mr. Uiterwaal said those decisions at least partly reflected pressure from financial institutions that are turning their backs on funding companies that produce cluster munitions.
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These more advanced mines were supposed to be safer than older generations and not leave behind duds, or munitions that have the potential to detonate.
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Based on Commerce Department figures, releasing the billion dollars of munitions currently on hold in the Senate would "create or sustain" fewer than 4,000 jobs.
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US aircraft dropped 7,423 munitions there in 2019, which is the most in a year in since Air Forces Central Command began releasing that data.
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More than seven decades after the end of World War Two, Germany still discovers more than 2,000 tonnes of live bombs and munitions every year.
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In London, Britain's defense minister, Michael Fallon, confirmed in Parliament that the coalition had dropped "a limited number" of British-supplied cluster munitions in Yemen.
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United States Air Force documents show that in September alone, American aircraft dropped 948 munitions, the most in any month in the last five years.
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Common finds include old newspapers, sometimes used for insulation, and firearms and munitions, like the Revolutionary War cannonball found in a Brooklyn backyard last August.
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Under Mattis, the Pentagon saw Gates's restriction on cluster munitions as an obstacle to stopping human-wave attacks in any future war with North Korea.
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Since mid-January, the allies had repeatedly blanketed As Salman in cluster munitions, as they had done with other military targets across Iraq and Kuwait.
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Cluster munitions are bedeviled by a widespread failing: a high dud rate, meaning that a large percentage fail to detonate when they are supposed to.
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Under the new policy, military commanders can now use existing cluster munitions until "sufficient quantities" of "enhanced and more reliable" replacements are developed and fielded.
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U.S. HOUSE APPROVES BILL TO BAR EXPORT OF MANY CROWD-CONTROL MUNITIONS TO THE HONG KONG POLICE, SENDING MEASURE TO TRUMP FOR SIGNATURE OR VETO
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The LNA said its strike in Misrata targeted vehicles delivered from Turkey that arrived in Misrata's port on Monday, as well as weapons and munitions.
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In response, the IDF struck eight military targets in three Hamas compounds in Gaza, including a training facility, munitions manufacturing sites, and a storage site.
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Cluster munitions are dangerous to civilians and present problems under international humanitarian law — specifically concerning the principle of distinction and the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks.
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Furthermore, the new policy stated that after 2018, the U.S. military would only employ cluster munitions with an error rate of less than 1 percent.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nitrite is likely a carcinogen used in fertilizers, food preservation and even munitions and explosives.
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The administration official said the pivotal role the steel and aluminum industries play in defense munitions and economic security will easily justify the 232 citation.
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Others have discovered a newfound fascination with every tactical detail of military operations, down to the body armor and munitions carried by special operations soldiers.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the head of Russia's arms export agency Alexander Fomin said that Russia would like to produce military munitions in Indonesia, including shells.
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The more countries and armed groups that possess hypersonic weapons, the greater the risk of one of the super-fast munitions triggering a nuclear war.
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High-velocity munitions that were supposed to be used from up to a kilometer away were being shot at targets as close as 200 meters.
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Aundre Piggee, Army deputy chief of staff for logistics, told Congress in March 2017 that while "today I think we have adequate munitions for our normal requirements," he would be "very concerned with our current stockage of munitions" if "we had to surge, if we had contingency operations and if there continues to be emerging threats we see around the world," Defense News reported.
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A senior Saudi officer told Reuters forces in Marib had been positioned too close together and near a munitions store, causing a high number of deaths.
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The potential sale included 108 General Dynamics Corp M1A2 Abrams tanks worth around $2 billion as well as anti-tank munitions, three of the sources said.
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U.S. and Saudi officials are continuing to work on a $1.29-billion sale of U.S. precision munitions approved in November, according to military and industry sources.
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" — David T. Hanson "Located about 10 miles northeast of downtown Denver ... [the Rocky Mountain Arsenal] has manufactured and demilitarized mustard gas, nerve gas, and chemical munitions.
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Instead, she spent the war years on an assembly line for a munitions factory in England and gave lectures to raise money for the war effort.
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Cyprus, further east, has bitter experience from seizing Iranian products destined for Syria; munitions it confiscated exploded in 2011, causing the island's worst peace-time disaster.
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The Army is now working on two Initial Capabilities Documents (ICDs) to lay the conceptual groundwork for new weapons, munitions and a supplemental next-generation drone.
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A yet unidentified UAV has been pictured in the static display arena sporting 16 spots under its wings to carry a range of precision guided munitions.
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The panel's sighting of cluster munitions supports the findings of the U.N. Mine Action Service that the Sudanese Air Force has used RBK-3003 cluster bombs.
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"We should assume that there may be more plots, other terror cells on the lookout for ways, and new munitions to penetrate our defenses," Ng said.
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The Syrian military began using modified barrel bomb designs to drop chlorine after initially launching sarin, a potent nerve agent, from improvised rocket-assisted munitions (IRAMs).
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As troops move forward, they need fuel, ammunition, water, protection from munitions that run the gamut from crude improvised explosive devices to chemical or biological weapons.
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Second, it's important to recognize what the delivery of more munitions to the Saudis would mean for civilians on the ground: an intensification of the conflict.
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" One of the researchers on the project told La Presse newspaper that "we never know in which state of instability we'll find these non-exploded munitions.
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Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), recently introduced legislation to substantially boost spending on munitions, missile defense, including more THAAD interceptors, and joint exercises with U.S. Pacific allies.
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A fact-finding mission of the OPCW last month concluded that banned chlorine munitions were likely dropped in an attack on a Syrian neighborhood in February.
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The Army Joint Munitions Command said the explosion happened Tuesday afternoon at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., according to The Associated Press.
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Indeed, police in Albuquerque used a robot in 2014 to "deploy chemical munitions," which compelled the surrender of an armed suspect barricaded in a motel room.
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She said about 21 percent of 2015 revenues came from international sales, and demand remained strong for missile defense equipment, F-35 fighter jets and munitions.
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Experts say that much of the ammunition used in crimes in Venezuela is made at the country's government munitions factory and sold on by corrupt police.
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The Great Depression had forced many women into the workforce, and World War II thrust them into male-dominated fields like munitions manufacture, espionage, and baseball.
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Thousands of others from Hapcheon were taken to Hiroshima to toil in munitions factories, or worked on farms and in other menial jobs around the city.
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"Since Russia and Syria have renewed their joint air operations, we have seen a relentless use of cluster munitions," said Ole Solvang, HRW's deputy emergencies director.
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That's the highest number of munitions dropped for a single month since October 2010 — near the height of America's involvement in the 18-year long war.
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The US sensors, shooters, and munitions are widely distributed; Chinese forces would have to search a massive battlespace far beyond the strait to protect its fleet.
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"For too long the Obama administration has not been holding countries receiving U.S. military munitions accountable in the Middle East," Paul said in a written statement.
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US Air Force fighter jets are patrolling the Persian Gulf with apparent guided cluster munitions, weapons that may capable of tearing apart Iranian small boat swarms.
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Thus, the tripartite summit must yield a mechanism to prevent Iran's smuggling of sophisticated "game changing" weapons systems, primarily precision-guided munitions (PGMs), to its proxies.
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The camp—Yolen calls it Sobanek, an amalgam of actual names—is populated mainly by children, whose small fingers are useful for stuffing gunpowder into munitions.
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Nicholson also spoke about how the U.S. has tripled the amount of airpower and munitions dropped so far this year in the 16-year Afghanistan war.
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The deal is expected to include top-tier equipment and services including missiles, bombs, armored personnel carriers, Littoral Combat Ships, THAAD missile defense systems and munitions.
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The breakdown, from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, shows that many of the items are precision-guided "smart" bombs, such as Joint Direct Attack Munitions, i.e.
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Criticism of Saudi Arabia and its partners has been growing over thousands of civilian casualties, many of them caused by munitions fired from the coalition's warplanes.
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A May 2017 report from Human Rights Watch said that Raytheon-made munitions had been used in at least four Saudi-led coalition strikes on innocents.
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By early the next year, though, General Faqir was under arrest, accused of theft from his men's food and munitions budgets and other forms of corruption.
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The stigma attached to cluster munitions rose sharply with an international campaign that led to a 2008 treaty banning production, stockpiling and transfer of the weapon.
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That list of producers is not exhaustive and no information is available on financing available to many other arms manufacturers producing cluster munitions, Mr. Uiterwaal said.
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He said that the Islamic State tried loading 120-millimeter mortar rounds with caustic soda, but that the munitions rusted to the point of exuding salts.
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The Russians targeted are the first names to be added to a new EU mechanism to punish chemical weapons attacks using banned munitions, regardless of nationality.
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"These arms supplies and munitions will allow the battle to extend and ensure our supplies are not drained in a war of attrition," the commander added.
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One hundred years earlier, Selma was one of the last Confederate strongholds during the the Civil War and a munitions supplier of the South's war effort.
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A Franco-British air campaign ran out of munitions and equipment in Libya in 2011 and Europe was again forced to turn to the United States.
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They say that if you can make a cake, you can make a bomb; if the whole thing implodes, my job will not be in munitions.
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At a minimum, lawmakers should refuse to resupply the Saudis with precision-guided munitions that are killing civilians in Yemen and implicating America in the process.
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The findings were contained in the Cluster Munition Monitor, the group's annual report on adherence to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the treaty that prohibits them.
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According to US Air Forces Central Command, US aircraft dropped 7,423 munitions in 2019 — that&aposs the highest number of bombs released in nearly a decade.
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Indeed, Israeli intelligence had so penetrated Suleimani's Quds Force and its proxies that Suleimani would land a plane with precision munitions in Syria at 5 p.m.
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The idea was to design artillery shells that broke open in midair, dispensing little grenades that exploded in more uniformly sized pieces than earlier munitions did.
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According to US Air Forces Central Command, US aircraft dropped 7,0003 munitions in 2019 — that&aposs the highest number of bombs released in nearly a decade.
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The need for speed The flying branch could also get new missiles over the next 20 years that are a great deal faster than today's munitions.
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The chemical can be attached to munitions and can be used to create plumes of smoke as cover, with temperatures reaching up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
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There is little doubt that Mr. Gebrev's profession — the manufacture and sale of munitions and light weapons — places him in a risky field, especially in Bulgaria.
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Each rocket carried 19803 dual-purpose improved conventional munitions, or DPICM grenades, which looked like D-cell batteries with a nylon loop streaming from the top.
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During the Iranian missile attack, US positions were rocked by the blasts from 1,000- to 2,000-pound munitions, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
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Despite cluster munitions' long history of fratricide, Pentagon leaders continue to assert that using these weapons can reduce casualties among Americans, partner nations and even civilians.
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The company claimed the tank was blown up by anarchist because ethanol is an active ingredient in munitions, but an auditor nevertheless found the company responsible.
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Last year, the United States dropped more than 21970,21972 bombs, missiles and other munitions on extremists in Afghanistan — up from 211,365 in 2014, military data show.
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Officials in Namibia admitted to investigators that North Koreans were involved in several ventures there, including the construction of a munitions factory in the capital Windhoek.
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" One of the researchers on the project told La Presse newspaper that "we never know in which state of instability we'll find these non-exploded munitions.
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Those on the munitions manufacturing line were allotted four-hour periods in which to imbibe, 11 am to 3 pm, or 7 pm to 11 pm.
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Ledbetter said the explosion occurred in the painting area of a vehicle shop where more than 300 people work, and that building does not hold any munitions.
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The EU cyber regime plan follows a similar sanctions mechanism to punish chemical weapons attacks by targeting people blamed for using banned munitions regardless of their nationality.
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The world's largest aerospace company is on order to deliver F-15 jets, Chinook and Apache helicopters, as well as a plethora of munitions to the Saudis.
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The plant is the country's "main weapons production base," a defector who worked in North Korea's secretive munitions industry told South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper in 2010.
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Syrian and Russian warplanes dropped unguided munitions, known as indiscriminate "dumb bombs" rather than smart bombs that have electronic sensors to find their targets, the report said.
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The manoeuvring munitions can carry out what the Army calls counter-defilade fire—hitting a sniper hiding behind a wall, for example, or troops concealed in trenches.
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News Analysis Cold War weapons like cluster munitions and antipersonnel mines again are approved for use, but the Pentagon seems to lack a coherent strategy for them.
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In 2016, the company's South African subsidiary, Rheinmetall Denel Munition, opened a major munitions factory just south of Riyadh, chiefly to supply weapons to the Saudi military.
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Turkish army vehicles were offloading the munitions and equipment onto Syrian rebel armored vehicles and trucks, said the rebel, who was present during a handover of weapons.
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Various types of precision bombs were no longer being sold to the country over fears that the Saudis would use those munitions to target civilians in Yemen.
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Roughly 100 containers of a variety of weapons have arrived at Ramstein air base in Germany this month — the most munitions the base has gotten this century.
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Its fat-burning capacities had first been noted among French munitions workers during World War I, who absorbed the yellowish, powdery substance through their skin and lungs.
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The US official told Reuters that Russia uses fewer "precision-guided munitions" than the US-led coalition does, which increases the likelihood of civilians becoming collateral damage.
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After initial command disputes, the United States had to resupply NATO with precision munitions during the campaign because stockpiles were not deep enough to sustain a fight.
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Shortly after taking office, Bolsonaro signed a temporary decree making it easier for Brazilians to buy guns - a move that Fellipe thought would bolster his munitions business.
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It goes off slightly above ground, but it creates a tremendous blast wave that will go deep into a cave and around corners, which frustrate regular munitions.
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In fact, it was not until almost two decades later that the US began to move some of the most common encryption technologies off the Munitions List.
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Tripoli had already destroyed weapons that were ready for use including armed munitions and the most deadly, or "category 1," toxins with the help of Western countries.
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If you want to make sure that your inventory of spare parts is correct, if your munitions is correct, this is part of what the audit covers.
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In February, the Pentagon presented the White House with a potential plan for extensive airstrikes against the militant group's camps, command centers and munitions depots in Libya.
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