But major military powers — like Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and the United States — have never signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans its 112 member states from using or producing those weapons.

You mean we are buying something else and this is the cover

What a joke. For one thing we don't have a use for these, for another we make our own. Obviously we shouldn't be using them at all. We sent some to Ukraine the past few years, because fuck their farmers I guess. Besides for that, there is no use for cluster munitions, not the least from Israel that is making OUR designs, selling our own technology back to us, for a profit.

Cluster weapons are not banned. Some countries have entered into a treaty to not use them, but the US is not one.

I'd also add that my guess is that, as with land mines, the fairly-successful showing in the Russo-Ukrainian War means that weapons with submunitions probably are going to wax more than wane.

On 18 July 2024, the Parliament of Lithuania decided to withdraw from the convention.[37] The Lithuanian government argued that Russia has used cluster munitions extensively during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and would not hesitate to use them in conflict with NATO.[38] The government also pointed out that of the NATO states bordering Russia, only Lithuania and Norway were parties to the convention.[37] Lithuania deposited its instrument of withdrawal from the convention on 6 September 2024,[39] and the withdrawal took effect on 6 March 2025.[40]

For example, ATACMS missiles using cluster munitions made sticking aircraft and weapons in revetments

which Russia did at one helicopter airfield

a lot less effective for protection.

I did not vote for this. Some people did not vote. They voted for this. Then the final 30 per cent wanted this. Life is not a spectator sport.