where are you getting this information? everything i'm reading is saying that there were at least four different kinds of submunition in use. and the 2-4 percent figure is just an officially cited number. in other words, test data. if you believe that figure i'm sure you also believe that our country's anti ballistic missile system actually works.
in fact, when the army tested existing stockpiles of the m42 munition it found dud rates of 14 percent-
U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center, Technical Center for Explosives Safety, “Study of Ammunition Dud and Low Order Detonation Rates,” July 2000, p. 9.
again test conditions, only this time not quite so weighted by whatever contractor was collaborating with the military on the initial tests.
The UN is reporting dud rates may be as high as 50 percent.
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As of 29 August, the U.N. MACC SL reported that 2,171 submunition duds had been located and destroyed, in just two weeks of operations. This total did not include submunitions cleared by the Lebanese Army or Hezbollah. It consisted of 820 M77 MLRS submunitions, 715 M42 artillery submunitions, 631 M85 artillery submunitions, and five BLU-63 aerial bomblets.
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