A dual-purpose improved conventional munition is an artillery or surface-to-surface missile warhead designed to burst into submunitions at an optimum altitude and distance from the desired target for
A US-made M77 DPICM of the type used by the MLRS artillery rocket launcher system. The M77 was developed from the M483A1 that was developed for so-called "cargo" artillery shells in the 155 mm and 8-inch (203 mm) calibers.
M864 showing arrangement of submunitions
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A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Cluster munitions are air-dropped or ground-launched weapons. They release
Dual-purpose improved conventional munition
…A dual-purpose improved conventional munition (DPICM) is an artillery or surface-to-surface missile warhead designed to burst into submunitions at an optimum altitude and distance from the desired target for dense area coverage. The submunitions use both shaped charges for the anti-armor role…
US 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 US 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.