Why are cluster munitions so notorious for leaving unexploded bomblets around?

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Is it poor build quality or are they not designed to explode on impact?

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Bombs are made with a lot of safety in mind. You need to be able to transport these things over rough terrain, inside a moving tank or in the back of a big truck. All the safety that is built into the bomb means that there is a significant chance it doesn’t even go off when it is supposed to. A cluster bomb is really made up of a lot of smaller bombs and each of these bombs has the same safety inside it, so there’s a good chance some of them don’t explode when they’re supposed to. This is *good* because if they exploded too easily, they would blow up in transport and kill your own people.

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