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Airborne leaflet dropping is a type of propaganda where leaflets are scattered in the air, normally by filling cluster bombs that open in midair with thousands of leaflets. Military forces have used aircraft to drop leaflets to attempt to alter the behavior of combatants and non-combatants in enemy-controlled territory, sometimes in conjunction ...
Three PDU-5 Leaflet Bombs sitting on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. The PDU-5/B is an aircraft-deployed leaflet dispersal unit. It is derived from the CBU-100 "Rockeye" Cluster Bomb, developed by the U.S. Air Force around 1999. It was used successfully in Afghanistan and Iraq to distribute leaflets.
Mass production of the M115 bomb began in 1953. [2] The weapon was a modified M16A1 cluster bomb, which was normally used to distribute airborne leaflet propaganda or fragmentation weapons. [3] The U.S. Air Force first pointed out the need for an anti-crop weapon in September 1947. In October 1950 the Air Force began procuring 4,800 M115 bombs. [1]
However, airborne newspapers were considered the most effective propaganda. ... On February 4, 1944, the first leaflet “bomb” was tested. The bombs were created ...
Originally, leaflets were thrown overboard by hand. They were then dropped in cardboard boxes until the squadron's armament officer devised a leaflet bomb made of laminated paper and fused to disperse the leaflets at an altitude of 1,000 feet (300 m) to 2,000 feet (610 m) feet.
The South Korean civilian group, led by North Korean defector Park Sang-hak, said it floated 10 balloons tied to 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets, USB sticks with K-pop songs and South Korean ...
The mission of the 581st ARS was the infiltration, resupply, and exfiltration of guerrilla-type personnel, and the aerial delivery of psychological warfare (PSYWAR) material (leaflets and other similar materials). The wing was also assigned two support groups a communications squadron and a maintenance squadron.
A North Korean who escaped the country described his days in the Korean People's Army. He told BI that he trained men from the Storm Corps, the elite unit believed to be fighting Ukraine.