A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. Other cluster munitions are designed to destroy runways or electric power transmission lines.
U.S. Honest John missile warhead cutaway around 1960, showing M134 bomblets filled with Sarin
Half of a surface-to-air missile site in North Vietnam blanketed in exploding bomblets dispersed by a U.S. cluster munition, Vietnam War
A cluster bomb is dropped at the Nightmare Range in South Korea
SD2 Butterfly Bomb circa 1940. Wings rotate as bomb falls, unscrewing the arming spindle connected to the fuze.
An explosive weapon is a weapon that uses an explosive to project blast and/or fragmentation from a point of detonation.
Several grenades and land mines on display in Hanoi
Explosive aircraft ordnance, among other aircraft payloads, at the Flieger Flab Museum