Editing BAE Systems (section)

===Cluster bombs===
In 2003, BAE Systems was criticised for its role in the production of [[cluster bombs]], due to the long-term risk for injury or death to civilians. Following the 2008 Oslo [[Convention on Cluster Munitions]] BAE Systems was among the first defence contractors to stop their manufacture<ref>{{cite news |title=Do you make or sell cluster munitions? |url=http://www.baesystems.com/article/BAES_052468/cluster-bombs?_afrLoop=2997644007578000&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=null#!%40%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dnull%26_afrLoop%3D2997644007578000%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Dwzijqwb8e_370 |newspaper=BAE Systems |access-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619174023/http://www.baesystems.com/article/BAES_052468/cluster-bombs?_afrLoop=2997644007578000&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=null#!%40%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dnull%26_afrLoop%3D2997644007578000%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Dwzijqwb8e_370 |archive-date=19 June 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baesystems.com/BAEProd/groups/public/documents/bae_publication/bae_pdf_cr08_cr_panel.pdf |title=Corporate Responsibility Panel |access-date=17 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611075402/http://www.baesystems.com/BAEProd/groups/public/documents/bae_publication/bae_pdf_cr08_cr_panel.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2011}}</ref> and by 2012 the majority of the munitions had been destroyed.<ref>{{cite news |last=Norton-Taylor |first=Richard |title=Most of Britain's cluster bomb stockpile has been destroyed, say activists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/06/britain-cluster-bomb-stockpile-destroyed |date=6 September 2012 |access-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619175230/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/06/britain-cluster-bomb-stockpile-destroyed |archive-date=19 June 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>