<p>An expendable bird carrying an incendiary receptacle round its neck, one of many bizarre delivery systems of warfare found in the Chinese <i>Wujing Zongyao</i> manuscript, compiled by the year 1044 during the Song Dynasty of China. However, birds such as these were used as flying incendiary weapons as early as the 10th century.
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This illustration also appears on page 212 of Joseph Needham's book <i>Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Part 7.</i>
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2007-08-11
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