antipersonnel bomb
Noun
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A bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments;
Most effective against troops and vehicles (synset 103395173)hypernym: bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditionshyponym: big blue, blu-82 - a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistanpart meronym: cluster bomb - bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area
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