Those were designed and made by Honeywell at the TCAAP, Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant in New Brighton Minnesota, USA. The shrapnel balls were made from wire roughly formed
in a press then tumbled round, at one time Honeywell had the largest die cast department in the USA making these bomblets. Several more were developed, some smaller in diameter and a rather larger one made from a stamping with plastic bonded on the outside. The vanes cause the bomblet to spin flight arming a fuze, the fuze hammer would make contact with a bit of
contact cement and remain held until the bomb hit causing detonation, some bombs would actually delay for up to several hours.
Several more AREA DENIAL weapons were developed by Honeywell most with a scatterable attribute by plane, Helicopter, and Artillery. Some of these were reworked into special hand
thrown mines for the Navy Seals. The cluster bomb used in Iraq was the CBU, Cluster Bomb Unit that dropped an anti- armor/ anti- personal bomb, I recall there were 96 bombs in a
CBU and each bomb-let penetrated nine inches of armor. This was the weapon that that caused the road of death in the first Iraq war.
The other interesting bomb was the Fax, or Fuel Air Explosive that caused massive overpressure when detonated.
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Dresden
