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The Current U.S. Cluster Munition Stockpile - Human Rights Watch
The report details a stockpile of 5.5 million cluster munitions containing about 728.5 million submunitions.10 This figure, however, does not appear to be a full accounting of cluster munitions available to U.S. forces. In particular, the tally does not include cluster munitions that are part of the War Reserve Stocks for Allies (WRSA).11 Human Rights Watch has previously reported that the U.S. inventory, including WRSA, totaled about one billion submunitions.12
Cluster munitions are particularly ubiquitous in the stores of U.S. ground forces. According to the DoD report, the Army has about 638.3 million cluster submunitions (88 percent of the total inventory) and the Marine Corps has about 53.3 million (7 percent). The report states, “Cannon and rocket artillery cluster munitions comprise over 80% of Army fire support capability,”13 and they “comprise the bulk of the Marine Corps artillery munitions.”14 The Air Force stockpiles about 22.2 million air-delivered cluster bombs (3 percent of the cluster inventory) and the Navy about 14.7 million (2 percent).
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https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder ... bmunitions.
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That’s just 5 million cluster munitions.
The USA and allies might have a billion, that’s one thousand million, ordinary 155mm shells for a weapons system with a 14 mile range made since 1942.
Spin one, for the traitors among us:
https://youtu.be/LJfJPxLntZU?si=tFvsOdgeUE7jTA0T
Manufacturer: Rock Island ArsenalService: US Army, USMCWeight: 15,772 lbLength Combat: 36 ft 2 inTravel: 40 ft 6 inWidth Travel: 9 ft 2 inHeight Travel: 9 ft 6 inCrew: 9Caliber: 155 mmMax rate of fire: 4 rpmMaximum
Range: 14 mi
The M198 155mm howitzer is a towed field artillery piece of a split trail carriage design. The M198 is equipped with a double baffle muzzle brake and a variable length hydropneumatic recoil mechanism. The M198 is transported trail first, with the gun suspended over a single pair of traveling wheels. While deployed forward for firing and transportation, for storage, the gun can be rotated 180 degrees (over the trail).When fired, the howitzer is not anchored, but rather, rests on the traveling wheels. The M198 cannot be fired while "limbered" (in traveling configuration), but rather, must be emplaced. The M198 does not have a splinter shield, and there is no option to attach one. The breech is a manually operated screw type mechanism. The M198 fires non-fixed (separate projectile and propellant) ammunition and can be loaded with a variable number of propellant bags. The M198 is capable of providing fire support in both indirect and direct fire capacities.