After the IDF reported that more than 30,000 Hamas munitions have been destroyed in the Gaza Strip, military sources claimed that efforts should have been focused on suppressing arms smuggling in a more targeted manner over the past two years.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-779360

And there is controversy about the US’s announcement on Friday that it will provide Ukraine with cluster munitions.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23643222.nato-members-prepare-summit-lithuania-amid-cluster-bomb-disagreements/?ref=rss

Announcing that they will support the industry's investment in high technology, Kacır said, "We are currently designing and producing the photodetectors of national smart munitions and the chips of national radar systems in our defense industry.

Source: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/technology-investments-to-help-lower-current-account-deficit-187691

A separate statement said Kim Jong visited Pukjung Machine Complex, which produces marine engines, and a major munitions factory to stress the importance of strengthening Pyongyang's naval forces.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/north-korea-stages-tactical-nuclear-attack-drill-8922329/

Asked about both cluster munitions and F-16s by Raddatz, Andriy Yermak, the head of the presidential office and one of Zelenskyy's top advisers, told ABC News that Ukraine could succeed without the jets but at the cost of more lives.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/zelenskyy-abc-russia-ukraine-war-end-thoughts-us/story?id=100903255

BANGKOK— Land mines and unexploded munitions injured or killed more than one person every day in Myanmar last year, the United Nations said, pointing to a 40 percent spike in casualties compared to 2021.

Source: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-land-mine-casualties-surge-two-years-after-coup-un.html

Biden has also chosen to bypass current U.S. law that prohibits the use of cluster munitions with a failure-to-detonate rate of 1 percent or more.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/07/16/cluster-bombs-to-ukraine-anxiety-rises-among-democrats/

Bulloch enjoys some success, supplying the South with a number of blockade runners, war munitions, and commerce raiders.

Source: https://spectator.org/history-of-confederacys-plot-to-build-a-blue-water-navy-reads-like-a-spy-thriller/

But Mr Prigozhin has increasingly criticized the military brass, accusing it of incompetence and of starving his troops of munitions.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/news/national/23612194.kremlin-tightens-security-wagner-group-rebels-head-towards-moscow/?ref=rss

But still, the EU says it cannot provide all the munitions it promised to Kyiv.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23932813.david-pratt-russias-war-ukraine-heading/?ref=rss

But the cluster munitions are enough to keep the war going.

Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/08/08/wsj-american-cluster-bombs-are-fueling-ukraines-counteroffensive/

But the war in Ukraine is contributing to a reordering of global politics to stop the spread of weapons and dangerous technology, such as advanced missiles, drones, munitions and the components and know-how necessary to build them.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/09/24/the-conversation-war-in-ukraine-is-contributing-to-the-erosion-of-global-consensus-over-the-spread-of-dangerous-weapons/

Buying munitions from North Korea would be a violation of U.N. resolutions, supported by Russia, that ban all arms trade with the isolated country.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/world-news/2023/09/kim-jong-un-and-putin-may-meet-what-do-north-korea-and-russia-need-from-each-other/

Chief among those is getting munitions for Israel's air defense system sped along.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/israel-ap-ford-iron-dome-hamas-b2428282.html

Cluster munitions burst mid-flight, scattering explosive submunitions over a wide area.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/8/house-progressives-trash-joe-bidens-cluster-bomb-d/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov promised the munitions would not be used in Russia.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/zelensky-brings-home-former-commanders-from-turkey-on-500th-day-of-war-4190590

Depleted uranium munitions, as well as depleted uranium-enhanced armour, have been previously used by US tanks in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq’s T-72 tanks and again in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well as in Serbia and in Kosovo.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/what-is-depleted-uranium-shells-russia-ukraine-b2407268.html

Each side has run low on munitions at times, with Ukraine relying on its Western backers, and Russia buying attack drones from Iran.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/world/europe/ukraine-russia-battle-zaporizhzhia.html

Ergo-This can only mean that Joe is running yardsales and selling all the kit and munitions…and if you want classified documents, they are in the garage.

Source: https://www.imao.us/2023/02/straight-line-of-the-day-what-has-the-military-done-with-over-220-billion-dollars-worth-of-equipment/

First, cluster munitions are supposedly particularly dangerous for civilians after the fighting is over.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/13/left-was-wrong-wrong-wrong-cluster-munitions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=left-was-wrong-wrong-wrong-cluster-munitions