Is it poor build quality or are they not designed to explode on impact?
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the issue is less that they don’t explode, every bomb has that problem, and more that they’re impossible to keep track of.
a conventional bomb used for the same purpose is comparable in size and weight to a refrigerator *at least* and looks exactly how you expect a bomb to look. a cluster bomb sub-munition is basically a can of hairspray, or a softball made of metal.
both can fail to detonate, but you aren’t going to accidentally step on a refrigerator sized steel cylinder sitting in a crater, and your kids aren’t going to bring one home because it’s a neat bauble they found in the woods.
also related, the side that drops a bomb knows where it is, within reason. if you bombed a thing and it didn’t explode, you know there’s a single un-detonated bomb down there. if you drop a cluster bomb, you don’t know how many of the little things failed to explode, and god knows where any of them are. if it didn’t explode, one of its siblings could have thrown it into the sunset.
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