Is it poor build quality or are they not designed to explode on impact?
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Along with duds, the weapon serves as area denial. So sure, I cluster bomb your city and do big damage to infrastructure, but now every step you take, every ruin you demo to get.back usable land, every truck that rumble along the road on the way to the factory is a random and spontaneous explosion.
A problem has a solution, but a dilemma requires a choice between two options, both bad. So your enemy can either run the risk of civilian casualties, a disruption of logistics, and abandoning a position, or they can task soldiers and specialists to clear the area meaning they aren’t out on the battlefield keeping your troops safe.
So when it comes to manufacturing tolerances, even allowing a 20% dud rate like Russia carries with it a certain level of ROI. My 160 bombs destroy alot, the city is wrecked, the enemy is removed, and now they have 40 questions. Maybe all 40 are inert, maybe only 10 are, but you have to spend time and resources to figure out which is which at great cost if you guess wrong.
The indiscriminate killing is the ethical problem though
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