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Old 2nd Dec 2017, 17:14
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ORAC
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Well if they want to keep using them, depending on the shelf life, they’ll have to buy them from the Russians......

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-them-anymore/ Why the last U.S. company making cluster bombs won’t produce them anymore

http://www.defenseone.com/threats/20...t-isis/128646/

....”In February, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, then-commander of U.S. Forces Korea, warned that the loss of cluster bombs could deplete the U.S. military’s stockpile in the Pacific. “We must maintain an adequate quantity of critical munitions to ensure alliance supremacy in the early days of conflict on the Peninsula,” Scaparrotti said at a Feb. 24 House Armed Services Committee hearing. The general said the problem is “further amplified by the approaching loss of cluster munitions due to shelf life expiration and the impending ban.”......
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