Im a real dud

Some nights are a dud, but one out of four girls usually scores some schmo.

His book was not a best seller in commercial terms, it might be better described as a dud.

Different manufacturers of sub munitions around the world have achieved different levels of dud rates with their sub munitions.

The In Service Surveillance (ISS) program coupled with a regular proof firing program will provide the best means of dud minimisation during operations.

Thus, ammunitions with high dud rates will influence the proportionality balance negatively and diminish the options of their use against legitimate military objectives.

In implementing this decision, the BL 755 cluster munition previously commissioned in the Federal Air Force has continuously been phased out since the year 2001 as a consequence of its unacceptable dud rate.

For this reason, Switzerland considers the use of cluster weapons in densely populated areas such as inhabited cities or villages generally as highly problematic, even more so where sub munitions with high dud rates are concerned.

Against this background, the Federal Ministry of Defense has decided, primarily, to employ only those cluster munitions, which include a limitation of the operational time and which have a maximum dud rate of less than one percent.

The bottom line is that one will be far less likely to have weapons that are producing an unacceptable dud rate, if one is operating weapons that have been designed and tested to ensure they cope with the environment in question.

In the report quot Project Elimination of combat means (mines, dud ordinances) in Croatia as a precondition to recover the country quot , the Croatian Ministry of Reconstruction has estimated that the programme necessary to de mine the Republic of Croatia would take an estimated nine years and involve an expense of nearly 400 million.