Obsolete or Obsolescent?

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

ICM and cluster munitions are about a heartbeat away from being declared illegal weapons, because of the large number of live but unexploded bomblets they leave laying around in the burst area, to be found later by civilians or having to be cleared later by EOD.

Not as long as the Chinese and North Korean armies along with the Iranians keep the idea of mass human wave infantry attacks alive as part of their training of their armies. Its either cluster munitions and land mines or you have to use nukes to stop attacks like that on the scale they have done in the past.