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The way I took it was, given the high altitude release point and the fact that he seemed to be talking about a cargo of 20 submunitions weighing 2.5 kg apiece, then it seemed unlikely that 8 km was the blast radius.

It seemed more likely that he was effectively talking about scattering 20 unguided light to medium mortar rounds over a circle with an 8 km radius. That would be a 200 km2 circle with 20 mortar bombs in it. Militarily ineffective I would think.
Blast radius being in the above, being the area of dispersion.

20 submunitions in a 8km wide circle.

It is a terror weapon, nothing more. Some of variants have a fragmentation payload, others an incendiary.
 
Blast radius being in the above, being the area of dispersion.

20 submunitions in a 8km wide circle.

It is a terror weapon, nothing more. Some of variants have a fragmentation payload, others an incendiary.

Agree on the principle but a disagreement on a point of pedantry. He said a blast radius of 8 km or 5 miles. The distance is from the centre of the explosion or the dispersion to the edge.

8 km wide would mean a diameter of 8 km or 5 miles.

The difference is a factor of 4.

If 8 km is the radius then the area is about 200 km2 or 200 grid squares.
If 8 km is the diameter then the area is about 50 km2 or 50 grid squares.

Either way, 20 mortar rounds in 50 or 200 grid squares, they are going to need to pump an awful lot of rockets into that target area to have any kind of militarily useful effect.

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