Dispensers and submunitions: in dealing with groups of armoured vehicles, some form of dispenser may be employed to provide area coverage by means of a number of guided or unguided submunitions.

Armada International › Vol. 26 Nbr. 6, December 2002

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Dispensers and submunitions: in dealing with groups of armoured vehicles, some form of dispenser may be employed to provide area coverage by means of a number of guided or unguided submunitions.

Submunitions are thus called because they are in effect clusters of warheads enclosed in various forms of frames. These can be air-launched dispensers, but also artillery shells or rockets, and now even drones.

CEB, SFW etc.

The basic American dispenser is th...

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