In an strategic attack scenario cluster munition would suit best for airbase attacks. Airbases are mostly far from civilian areas as they are primary targets of area effect weapons. Cluster ammo are inherently iron dome resistant with mini bomblets that cant be tracked-intercepted easily by sams.
Any debris or hole on the runway would make the jets idle for hours. Especially f16s with underside inlet is vulnurable to debris on runways. and f16s cant be transferred easily to highways or other airbases once the air route is down. Unloaded f35 if theirs are vtol can be transferred to another location only.
Rocket needs to spin at the final stage like in this example with a timer and open up its warhead section. Bomblets can be time fuzed grenades as well with some fixed time to detonate after it falls down. bomblets need to absorb shock when it falls to ground then detonate afterwards when the timer expires or impact fuzed but it needs to be armed at final stage after separation from the rocket. Even if the rocket is unguided and has a huge cep bomblets can make to runways disabling its operations.
In an economic attack like destroying buildings-settlements etc.(telling the place and approximate time period of attack negates main aim of killing civilians argument and israel did not care bombing civ buildings without warning many times and unlike Palestinians they have sensors as warning that gives time for civilians to shelters) cluster ammo is not usable and would create a similar response from adversary. However bomblets can be replaced with decoys-radar reflective cheap balls of high quantity to saturate the iron dome if launched simultaneously with other normal rockets and ensure better penetration of them bypassing enemy defenses.
Save fuel-nepalm bombs of large caliber(smaller fuel bomb-rockets are not much different from normal explosive warheads and have more sustained damage) and cluster bombs for civ areas as a vengence weapon if infrastructure is destroyed as a mad deterrence concept.
Any debris or hole on the runway would make the jets idle for hours. Especially f16s with underside inlet is vulnurable to debris on runways. and f16s cant be transferred easily to highways or other airbases once the air route is down. Unloaded f35 if theirs are vtol can be transferred to another location only.
Rocket needs to spin at the final stage like in this example with a timer and open up its warhead section. Bomblets can be time fuzed grenades as well with some fixed time to detonate after it falls down. bomblets need to absorb shock when it falls to ground then detonate afterwards when the timer expires or impact fuzed but it needs to be armed at final stage after separation from the rocket. Even if the rocket is unguided and has a huge cep bomblets can make to runways disabling its operations.
In an economic attack like destroying buildings-settlements etc.(telling the place and approximate time period of attack negates main aim of killing civilians argument and israel did not care bombing civ buildings without warning many times and unlike Palestinians they have sensors as warning that gives time for civilians to shelters) cluster ammo is not usable and would create a similar response from adversary. However bomblets can be replaced with decoys-radar reflective cheap balls of high quantity to saturate the iron dome if launched simultaneously with other normal rockets and ensure better penetration of them bypassing enemy defenses.
Save fuel-nepalm bombs of large caliber(smaller fuel bomb-rockets are not much different from normal explosive warheads and have more sustained damage) and cluster bombs for civ areas as a vengence weapon if infrastructure is destroyed as a mad deterrence concept.
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