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This is old news. I have seen interviews of retired Air Force Generals talking about the U.S. using weather weapons in Vietnam.

They made it rain all the time on the Ho Chi Minh trail to make it hard for the communist to move their supplies and weapons into South Vietnam. It slowed them down and then we would hit them from the air with B-52s.

I find it astounding that so few people know about this. It was declassified in early 2000.

They made it rain all the time on the Ho Chi Minh trail to make it hard for the communist to move their supplies

That explains the rain poor old Forrest Gump and Bubba had to endure.

Shoot...It even rained at night.

Seriously, though. I'd never heard that till these threads. But I believe it's physical possible and that they would do that.

Rainmaking Is Used As Weapon by U.S. By SEYMOUR M. HERSH JULY 3, 1972 The article as it originally appeared. View page in TimesMachine July 3, 1972, Page 1 The New York Times Archives WASHINGTON, July 2—The United States has been secretly seeding clouds over North Vi etnam, Laos and South Viet nam to increase and control the rainfall for military purposes. Government sources, both ci vilian and military, said during an extensive series of inter views that the Air Force cloud seeding program has been aimed most recently at hinder ing movement of North Viet namese troops and equipment and suppressing enemy antiair craft missile fire. The disclosure confirmed growing speculation in Con gressional and scientific circles about the use of weather mod ification in Southeast Asia. De spite years of experiments with rainmaking in the United States and elsewhere, scientists are not sure they understand its long‐term effect on the ecology of a region. https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/03/archives/rainmaking-is-used-as-weapon-by-us-cloudseeding-in-indochina-is.html