Editing Cluster munition (section)

===Anti-personnel===
Anti-personnel cluster bombs use explosive [[fragmentation (weaponry)|fragmentation]] to kill troops and destroy soft (unarmored) targets. Along with incendiary cluster bombs, these were among the first types of [[List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War II#Cluster bombs|cluster bombs]] produced by Nazi Germany during World War II. They were used during [[the Blitz]] with delay and booby-trap fusing to hamper firefighting and other damage-control efforts in the target areas. They were also used with a contact fuze when attacking entrenchments. These weapons were widely used during the [[Vietnam War]] when many thousands of tons of submunitions were dropped on Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.<ref>[http://www.paxchristi.nl/catalogus/uploaded_file.aspx?id=98 Cluster Weapons; Convenience or necessity?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004114519/http://www.paxchristi.nl/catalogus/uploaded_file.aspx?id=98 |date=October 4, 2006 }}</ref>