POV of Serbian Peaceful Protestors Attacked by Sonic Weapon
POV of Serbian Peaceful Protestors Attacked by Sonic Weapon
The video was originally published on reddit but was taken down. https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/s/zxk5v6LOc3 The sonic weapon, likely LRAD, was deployed on peaceful protestors during their 15 minu...
What exactly is it? High pitched frequency? Or just very loud? Does it physically hurt?
This depends on a lot of factors like distance, direction, and original intensity. But it can be painful or worse, cause permanent hearing loss.
Source: https://www.acentech.com/resources/long-range-acoustic-devices-lrad-and-public-safety/
God I hate replies like this. We are watching a video. What happens in the video? That's what they are obviously asking.
Edit: I found videos from different perspectives. https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/114172100218871827 That makes it a bit clearer.
Of course reddit took it down. There's a decent video on protecting from these systems on youtube; the gist is that normal industrial headphones provide the best protection by themselves, but the protection is even better when paired with a riot shield. I imaging you might even be able to reflect the sound back of you had something stiff and dense.
Also, physically destroying the system works too.
I thought this was ADS since I can't hear the sound in any of the videos of this protest I've seen, like in this LRAD video and in this LRAD defense video its super loud.
So I don't think headphones would help here since ADS just heats the water in your body but a riot shield would help just on the parts of the body it covers since the ADS can't penetrate very far, not sure if conventional clothing would work or if you would have to cover your body in something like aluminium foil to stop the millimetre waves penetrating skin.
Also, physically destroying the system works too.
Would a breaking bottle of flammable liquid with a flame work?
It feels like a dystopian sci fi movie.