David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Senator, I agree with how you have characterised this issue in the framing of your question. From the literature I have read, I think the current failure rate for the United States munitions is something in the order of five per cent. One per cent is their target by 2018. Of course, it goes without saying that any failure rate is a grievous thing. I understand that cluster munitions deployed by other countries, manufactured from other places, can have failure rates of up to 30 per cent.