Though there are actually many types of cluster bombs that nations have like poison gas cluster bombs and electrical cluster bombs to take out power grids, the ones nations generally use more are sort of like if you took 100 to 1000 fragmentation hand grenades, put them in a container built to throw these 1000 hand grenades over a 1 square mile area. This then tends to kill everything living in that area from that one big bomb dropped out of a plane in any area which breaks into 1000 little bombs over a 1 square mile area from that one big bomb.
But, here is the problem. Statistically at least 5% of these (hand grenades) are duds and don't go off right then. So, children and adults and animals likely might set them off by touching them for the next 100 years or so which is what is still happening in Viet Nam where 300 still die every year from cluster bombs dropped there between the early 1960s to 1974.
Understanding that 50 years from now whoever lives in Syria is going to see at least 100 people living there dying from the cluster bombs Russia is dropping there now. So, Turkey shooting down one of these bombers might make more sense to you now.
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