Thread by @kane, 1/ It's Friday! Here's a thread of weird psyops and tactical weapons.South [...]

1/ It's Friday! Here's a thread of weird psyops and tactical weapons.

South Korea used to blast k-pop across the DMZ at North Korean guards

2/ Nazi dive bombers had "Jericho Trumpets” sirens to intimidate targets; the CIA tried to reproduce it but decided they didn't actually really work

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32966/cia-tracked-down-a-nazi-scoured-museums-to-build-an-aircraft-siren-to-scare-the-hell-out-of-people

3/ Wright Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base explored the possibility of designing a chemical bomb which could turn enemy troops gay and horny

https://web.archive.org/web/20060502201217/http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/jnlwdpdf/wpafbchem.pdf

4/ The US Army Air Force and Navy developed bombs that carried bats strapped with napalm (14g/bat) in the 40’s since bats naturally sought out building eaves to hide in when released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

5/ Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was an Imperial Japanese Navy plan to use aircraft carrier submarines to drop ~2 billion smallpox infected fleas on San Diego

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night

6/ The CIA had a playlist to induce sleep deprivation in prisoners for interrogation. It included Dirrty (Christina Aguilera), the Barney Theme Song, the Sesame Street Theme Song, Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees), and others https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/02/torture-playlist/

21 songs CIA interrogators used to torture detainees. (For real.)

The songs that American guards and interrogators used to torture detainees.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/02/torture-playlist/

7/ Vespa 150 TAP anti-tank scooter

8/ Acoustic Kitty was a CIA attempt to surgically implant audio bugs into cats and have them hang around Soviet diplomatic buildlings. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-experimented-animals-1960s-too-just-ask-acoustic-kitty-180964313/

The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty’

Turns out that cats really don't take direction well

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-experimented-animals-1960s-too-just-ask-acoustic-kitty-180964313/

9/ Tanks were invented before truly portable radios so here's a British Mark V tank releasing a carrier pigeon.

10/ "Rods from God" is an idea that surfaces every once in a while to drop stuff on targets from space. https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry

The Pentagon’s New Super Weapon Is Basically A Weaponized Meteor Strike

In the 1950s, Jerry Pournelle imagined the military equivalent of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Toiling away as a Boeing operations researcher in the

https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry

11/ The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were recruited from art schools and advertising companies to move inflatable tanks around and send out fake broadcasts to confuse enemy reconnaissance

12/ The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol is an elite Danish Special Forces unit that patrols Greenland with dogs because its too cold for aircraft and trucks.

13/ There was an SR-71 mission to fly figure-8s in-and-out of supersonic speeds to generate sonic booms over Pyongyang during a meeting of Communist leaders just to let them know the US was watching.

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/sr-71-pilot-talks-about-flying-fastest-highest-soaring-aircraft/

14/ The crazy pilots of the CIA tried to fly a big U2 spy plane off of an aircraft carrier in Operation Whale Tale, but painted them to look like Office of Naval Research planes to fool the ship's crew