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[โ€“] rumbleran@suppo.fi 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They do exactly that in sane countries. Russia just drops them out of airplanes with zero fucks given where they land.

[โ€“] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Tbf Russia's PFM-1 is based off the US' BLU-43. The difference is the US went "Oh wow, this is a really bad situation" and stopped using them half a century ago.

Double tbf: Ukraine also has 5.5 million of these mines themselves.