The dumbest military weapons

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ROFL @cardsharp!

 

[mike05]

Here some interesting physiological weapons too

During the American intervention in Haiti in 1994 the military developed a plan to win the friendship of the local people by dropping soccer balls from helicopters to children below. It is alleged that the CIA bought 1,030 soccer balls, painted with crossed Haitian and American flags on each, and planned to air drop them over Port au Prince before the invasion. Somebody apparently did the math on the weight of a soccer ball falling at high speed from the sky and that plan was quickly cancelled. The last thing the United States needed was a dead Haitian child, killed by a falling soccer ball.

It was apparently decided in November 1967 during the Vietnam War that if the locals and the Viet Cong could become interested in playing chess, they would be less likely to set up ambushes and bury mines and punji stakes. As a result, this Joint United States Public Affairs Office product coded 2257 was developed. The finder could use the leaflet and cut out the pieces to play Vietnamese chess. It is certainly one of the oddest PSYOP items disseminated in wartime. Notice that the center of the board bears the words “Chieu Hoi” (“Open Arms&#8221, and the Chieu Hoi symbol is at the left and right.

You can find more at this interesting site
PSYOP, PSYWAR, Propaganda - Strange Gifts from Above