At Rep. McClintock’s recent open office hours in Fresno, Ms. McElroy brought the important Jacobs amendment to the NDAA to the staff member’s attention. Unfortunately, Mr. McClintock DID NOT vote in favor of this amendment.
The staff member indicated that Mr. McClintock believes sending old bombs to Ukraine is a good use of resources. This is very uninformed and mis-guided thinking.
The UK was a particularly prolific user of cluster bombs in Kosovo, where they accounted for over half the bombs dropped by the Royal Air Force. British pilots fired 531 of the devices, each containing 147 bomblets with over 2,000 pieces of shrapnel.
Up to 12% of the bomblets failed to detonate on impact, according to a report by parliament’s defence committee. The cross-party group of MPs said: “That means the RAF left between 4,000 and 10,000 unexploded bomblets on the ground in Kosovo”.
…Clearing the remnants of these weapons from Kosovo is not expected to finish until 2024 – a quarter century after the war ended.
Phil Miller, Chief Reporter at Declassified UK
Read about the harm these bombs cause here.