Honeywell

In 1962, multinational manufacturing giant Honeywell was also tasked to create dispensing mechanisms for bio-weapons, remote-piloted missiles.

Minneapolis-Honeywell has completed all contract work on the development of a simplified automatic control for a glide bomblet except for a mass drop of thirty items and submission of a final report. The packet-type glide shape with two gyrostabilized rudders was selected for use in the mass drop scheduled…Investigation of feeder-disseminators of dry fill in which both feed and dissemination are accomplished by a single gas is continuing. Laboratory tests of models indicate promising results using high-speed aircraft ram pressures as well as high tank pressures. [11]

From this brief report, Honeywell developed a gyrostablization mechanism for airplanes deploying biological weapons. Gyrostabilizers are sensors that measure change in direction, it’s likely your smart phone uses this technology to determine when it’s rotated or stabilizes your camera. Aircraft technology uses gyrostabilizers to determine aerial position. According to this declassified memo, Honeywell was developing ways to leverage an aircraft’s speed and tank pressures to most efficiently disseminate biological weapons on cities or crops.

Works Cited:

11: SO Division. “SO Quarterly Progress Report of Sept 62 and Comments.” NARA, November 2, 1962. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, RG 544, Box 4. https://pacificatrocitiesedu.reclaim.hosting/items/show/1535.