I sometimes use audio as weapon myself. I find that when my wife invades my man cave and starts to ramble on about something completely uninteresting and unimportant, I return fire by gradually goosing the volume on my remote until she gives up and goes back upstairs. It works every time.
Audio as a weapon
I would like to deviate a bit from the normal audio equipment conversation and delve into the phenomenon of the recent audio "weapon" that appears to have been deployed in Cuba upon State Department employees and now, it appears, in China. I know that very low frequency can be dreadful to listen to but anyone out there have any ideas with regard to how audio could be used as a weapon? It is not my intention to draw speculation of a political nature, I am only interested in the technical aspect of audio as a "weapon". Anyone have any thoughts?
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A number of decades ago, the military experimented with subsonics as a weapon. As I recall, the idea was arrived at after reports that some elderly people were losing control of their bowels at high end theaters that were using super massive subwoofers, pumping out high volume subsonics. The idea was to use this technology as a source of crowd control. The idea was dropped, not because it was totally ineffective, but because the subsonics could not be aimed. Those deploying the weapon were equally as affected as the targets. What a crappy outcome, eh. You tax dollars at work. |
For the record peeps, I was not far off: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/us-intelligence-thinks-russia-may-have-microwaved-us-emb... Someone get me a cookie. |