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cluster munitions

Weapons that disperse submunitions over wide areas, posing extreme danger to civilians both during attacks and long afterward from unexploded ordnance. Banned by the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008), which the U.S. has not joined.

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Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
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Pentagon Signs $210M+ Deal to Purchase Cluster Munitions From Israel

The US contracted with an Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer for banned cluster munitions at industrial scale, reversing decades of declining reliance on these weapons and funding an Israeli …

  • On September 30, 2025, the Pentagon awarded an indefinite delivery/quantity contract with a ceiling value of $829.1 million to Tomer, an …
  • The contract was awarded without public competition under a 'public interest' exception to federal contracting law, bypassing normal …
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