Word: antipersonnel
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...Classified exhibit). Third, antipersonnel landmines are emplaced over the antimaterial mines to deter the enemy's mine-clearing operations. WAAPM (wide area antipersonnel mine--cluster bomb unit) has been used in this role...
Hazeltine, who has researched Defense Department contracts to Boston companies, traced the development of a "university military-industrial complex" involved in strategic weapons system. then counter-insurgency, and most recently in the electronic battlefield. Hazeltine cited contracts to local companies for such devices as antipersonnel bombs, an airborne sensor system for night target surveillance, an armed reconnaissance scout vehicle, and a tactical communications satellite...
Branfman said the Pentagon has admitted authorizing half a million sorties over Laos since 1964. The major effort of these combat missions, according to Branfman, has been to depopulate sectors controlled by the Pathet Lao. Branfman described three antipersonnel weapons now being used by the U.S. military in this effort--the "pineapple," the "guava," and the flachette...
...flachette is an antipersonnel pellet which expands upon contact. Removing a flachetta from a wounded person inflicts more damage upon the victim than leaving it in would...
Total Damage. The Cambodian achievement was in holding out. The siege was broken by repeated U.S.-South Vietnamese air strikes that sent at least half a dozen 500-lb. bombs into the center of the town and splattered the area with scores of antipersonnel bombs and huge quantities of napalm. Hardly a building in the town's center was spared major damage...