Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Russia Using Cluster Bombs In Syria
Daily Mail: Incredible footage of Russians pounding Syrian rebels with 'cluster bombs' lighting up the sky with hundreds of explosions
* The video showed dozens of glowing red objects fired into the sky in Idlib
* 'Bombs' caused hundreds of small, violent explosions when they landed
* Human Rights Watch claimed to have evidence of Russian cluster bombs used in Aleppo
* Fears of an 'all-out proxy war' between Russia, which is targeting Assad's enemies, and US which air-dropped 50 tonnes of weapons for rebels
Dramatic footage claims to show Russian cluster bombs exploding over Syrian rebels in southern Idlib.
Published on YouTube yesterday, the video showed dozens of glowing, red bomblets being fired into the air from the ground.
It then cuts to show hundreds of small but violent explosions lighting up the landscape and sending plumes of smoke rising into the evening sky.
Update: Human Rights Group Blasts Putin for Using Cluster Bombs in Syria (Fiscal Times)
WNU Editor: Cluster bombs are very effective against enemy positions .... but it also causes large number of civilian casualties. These reports and videos also show that Russia is (and will) be operating under rules of engagement that the U.S. or NATO will not abide by.
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Looks like BM-30 Smerch with anti-personnel cluster warheads.
Might want to double check that WNU Editor,
"2003-2006 Iraq:
The US and UK use nearly 13,000 cluster munitions containing an estimated 1.8 to 2 million submunitions in the three weeks of major combat. A total of 63 CBU-87 bombs were dropped by US aircraft between May 1, 2003 and August 1, 2006."
While some NATO nations are party to the Cluster Munitions Treaty, the U.S. And Britain are not,
And US supplied Cluster Munitions have/are widely used by the Saudi's in Yemen, and Israel in both Lebanon and Gaza.
True Jay. I should have said current U.S./NATO rules of engagement.
WNU Editor,
Once again, there is no "Uniform" NATO/US ROE.
Each member nation has their own ROE, some are more restrictive, some are less.
As MSF Kunduz, and no shortage of weddings, funerals and fleeing refugee columns illustrate.
I suspect that the reason the U.S./NATO forces are not "currently" dropping cluster munitions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, is that the targets where cluster munitions are effective, ( columns, trench and bunker systems, formations in the open), arn't being found by U.S./NATO forces, or as the Iraqi's and Kurds claim, are being "tolerated" by U.S./NATO forces.
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