Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, there has been widespread use by Russian military forces of a variety of different types of rockets and missiles carrying cluster bombs containing submunitions of various types, which have been fired into the different fighting arenas. While most of the ammunition, weapons and systems that have appeared to date are known from their use by the Russian military and its allies in other battlefields in recent years, including Syria and Azerbaijan, several new systems have been documented during the war in Ukraine, most notably a small artillery penetration aid, designed for use as a decoy, to evade detection by air defense systems. There has also been an increasing use of loitering munitions that have entered the Russian military arsenal just recently. The current fighting makes it possible to review in detail a variety of veteran submunition systems used by the Russian military forces alongside new developments designed to maximize the effectiveness of these systems and cover a variety of ranges and attack targets.
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