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Cluster Munitions Under Consideration For Ukraine Have Dud Rate Below 2.35%, DoD Spox Says

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Cluster Munitions Under Consideration For Ukraine Have Dud Rate Below 2.35%, DoD Spox Says
Dozens of 155mm Base Burn Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions rounds wait to be loaded into M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers and M992 Field Artillery Support Vehicles Sept. 20 at the Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division motor pool at Camp Hovey, South Korea. (U.S. Army photo by 2nd Lt. Gabriel Jenko, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cav. Div.)

As the Biden administration reportedly nears a decision on providing cluster munitions to Ukraine, the Pentagon said Thursday any such weapons under consideration would be newer variants with dud rates below 2.35 percent. Providing such dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) with a dud rate above one percent, which accounts for the average percentage of bomblets in the weapon that fail to explode, would require a waiver to bypass existing congressional restrictions. “I will say that we have multiple variants of…

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