Date |
Location |
Details |
| 1943 |
USSR |
Soviet forces use air-dropped cluster
munitions against German armor. German forces use SD-1 and
SD-2 butterfly bombs against artillery on the Kursk salient. |
| 1943 |
United Kingdom |
German aircraft
drop more than 1,000 SD-2 butterfly bombs on the port of
Grimsby. |
| 1960s-1970s |
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam |
US forces make
extensive use of cluster munitions in bombing campaigns.
The ICRC estimates that in Laos alone, nine to 27 million
unexploded submunitions remain, and some 11,000 people have
been killed or injured, more than 30 percent of them children.
An estimate based on US military databases states that 9,500
sorties in Cambodia delivered up to 87,000 air-dropped cluster
munitions. |
| 1973 |
Syria |
Israel uses air-dropped
cluster munitions against non-state armed group (NSAG) training
camps near Damascus. |
| 1975-1988 |
Western Sahara |
Moroccan forces
use cluster munitions against NSAG. |
| 1978 |
Lebanon |
Israel uses cluster
munitions in southern Lebanon. |
| 1979-1989 |
Afghanistan |
Soviet forces
make use of air-dropped and rocket-delivered cluster munitions. NSAG
also use rocket-delivered cluster munitions on a smaller
scale. |
| 1982 |
Lebanon |
Israel uses cluster
munitions against Syrian forces and NSAG in Lebanon. |
| 1982 |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
UK aircraft drop
cluster munitions on Argentinean infantry positions near
Port Stanley, Port Howard, and Goose Green. |
| 1986 |
Chad |
French aircraft
drop cluster munitions on a Libyan airfield at Wadi Doum. |
| 1991 |
Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia |
The US and its
allies (France, Saudi Arabia, UK) drop 61,000 cluster bombs
containing some 20 million submunitions. The number
of cluster munitions delivered by surface-launched artillery
and rocket systems during the Gulf War is not known, but
an estimated 30 million or more DPICM submunitions were used
in the conflict. |
| 1992-1995 |
Bosnia- Herzegovina |
Forces of Yugoslavia
and NSAG use available stocks of cluster munitions during
civil war. |
| 1992-1997 |
Tajikistan |
Use by unknown
forces in civil war. |
| 1994-1996 |
Chechnya |
Russian forces
use cluster munitions against NSAG. |
| 1995 |
Croatia |
On May 2-3, 1995,
an NSAG uses Orkan M-87 multiple rocket launchers to attack
civilians in Zagreb. Additionally, the Croatian government
claimed that Serb forces used BL-755 bombs in Sisak, Kutina,
and along the Kupa River. |
| 1996-1999 |
Sudan |
Sudanese government
forces use air-dropped cluster munitions in southern Sudan. |
| 1997 |
Sierra Leone |
Nigerian ECOMOG
peacekeepers use Beluga bombs on the eastern town of Kenema. |
| 1998 |
Ethiopia / Eritrea |
Ethiopia and Eritrea
exchange aerial cluster munition strikes, Ethiopia attacking
the Asmara airport and Eritrea attacking the Mekele airport. Ethiopia
also dropped BL-755 bombs in Gash-Barka province of western
Eritrea. |
| 1998-1999 |
Albania |
Yugoslav forces
launch cross-border rocket attacks and NATO forces carry
out six aerial cluster munition strikes. |
| 1999 |
Yugoslavia (including Serbia, Montenegro,
and Kosovo) |
The US, UK, and
Netherlands drop 1,765 cluster bombs, containing 295,000
bomblets. |
| 2001- 2002 |
Afghanistan |
The US drops 1,228
cluster bombs containing 248,056 bomblets. |
| 2003 |
Iraq |
The US and UK
use nearly 13,000 cluster munitions containing an estimated
1.8 to 2 million submunitions in the three weeks of major
combat. |
| 2006 |
Lebanon |
Israeli forces
use surface-launched and air-dropped cluster munitions against
Hezbollah. The UN estimates that Israel used up to
4 million submunitions. |
| 2006 |
Israel |
Hezbollah fires
more than 100 Chinese-produced Type-81 122mm cluster munition
rockets into northern Israel. |
