Word: anti-personnel
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...like spin as it sails through the air, seemed like a possible alternative. Properly launched, the Navy researchers reasoned, Frisbees might well serve as a steady descending platform for flares and perhaps other payloads. Some Pentagon sources have suggested that the Navy hoped to load Frisbee-like disks with anti-personnel explosives, which would be scattered in all directions as the disk spun above a target area...
...Lierop compared the Portuguese a colonial efforts in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea to the American tactics in Southeast Asia. He cited the Portuguese reliance on air war, the used of napalm and anti-personnel bombs, and the use of helicopters in search-and-destroy operations...
Arthur Fink, a graduate student and a volunteer for the American Friends Service Committee, narrated "The Automated Battlefield," a NEARMIC slide presentation which depicts camouflaged anti-personnel mines, bombs guided by television signals, and helicopters equipped for sighting targets at night which have been designed to compensate for the reduction of actual American fighting manpower...
...doctors explained, the worst bombs were not the conventional demolition bombs, but a new type of anti-personnel bomb used for the first time in this raid. It consists of a "mother bomb" which showers an area with hundreds of metal silver-releasing bomblets...
Nguyen Ty Hin, the sister of Mai, Dr. Tuong told me, was running for shelter when she was hit with shrapnel which severely wounded her hip. A large wound was opened up by a splinter from an anti-personnel bomb...