Better safe than sorry. Plus export options is always there. Imagine if Iraq had a few of her artillery pieces hidden in the sand somewhere, engine shut off, just waiting for US armoured columns to come by.
There was a CCTV documentary about this not long ago. The sensors on the bomblets are...
Google map, coordinates: 43.076 N, 92.809 E
"It seems pretty well established as the Yaerbashi Test Range. It also appears to mostly be a driving school. Probably for large transport trucks or caravans of large trucks, likely military in nature, given the color and size of the trucks...
Chinese equivalent of the CBU-97. Can be air dropped, put in artillery shells and multiple rocket launchers.
Individual bomblet:
CBU-97 in action:
There is some difference, namely that the Chinese version does not use rocket powered assisted rotation and they seemed to use parachute for...
Just noticed that if Obama starts war with Iran he would be the fourth consecutive US presidents to start wars under their term. (5th if you include invasion of Grenada)
Some said that these displays were actually watered down version for future export possibilities.
Note that the sub beside it looks like Yuan class but were called S20.
Reminds me of an alternative view in an article I've read some time ago:
Some have argued, that the Ottoman empire and Timurid dynasty that precede it were in turn built on the power vacuum left in the aftermath of the Mongol westward expansion.
History is pretty complex. Education given in...
No doubt it can be deadly for ambush at close quarter.
I read that 20mm and 25mm launched grenades are too small/light to fragment effectively. Most operators use 35mm or 40mm.