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Sonic Bomb
Topic Started: May 29 2009, 11:10 PM (1,299 Views)
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Jun 10 2009, 01:31 AM
Aren't you talking about Flash bangs? Those are just small grenades with no shrapnel.
No, I'm talking about something different. It's made by the same manufacturers that make the LRAD.

And I meant the actual physical size of the weapon.
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Oh that thing. Does not sound like it has been a very useful weapon to fend of pirates. M1919 Browning's would be much more effective at repelling pirates, and they are pretty cheap as most nations are phasing them out.

And this speaker grenade does not sound like it has many advantages over flash bangs, which also blind the opponent. It would not cause fires and could not cause wound someone if they picked it up, I suppose.
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You're right. I imagine that's why it's not used very often. And the LRAD is a little worthless, as all it requires is somebody putting on electronic ear protectors (nice little things that are fairly cheap and filter all sound over 80 decibels) and shooting at you. What do you do then, when your sound weapon is useless and you spent all your money on that instead of real weapons?
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Scuttle the ship, if the rightful owners are not getting the cargo nobody is, though modern pirates seem to prefer ransom.
If you were not stupid then you could have taken out a few pirates and not be at the mercy of some who you just frustrated.

Why would you need a non-lethal weapon at sea? I can see the value at riots but not in fending of damned pirates. Surely you want to kill them dead.
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That's what I've always thought. Especially when I watch that Whale Wars show; those people are just being dicks. Just because you don't support the destruction of whales doesn't mean you have the right to attack ships full of people who are just doing their job.

I eagerly await the day that those people start messing around with the wrong ship and get an 80mm shell smashed into their bow.
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I know what you mean, sinking ships and hassling people won't turn public opinion. From what I here Sea Shepard's ships are damned dangerous with the most incompetent crew ever to sail the southern ocean. I would call the pirates, but I don't want to insult pirates by the comparison.

Oh I do hope they attack Japanese civilians when the Hyūga is close by.
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I know how to make the bomb do everything you described. Make it an actual "Sonic Bomb". Make it play all the audio from every 3-D Sonic the Hedgehog game. The world would be at your mercy.
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Or not.

The best way to use sound would be resonation- reonate evry water molecule in then persones body, heating them up to obliviopn, perhaps? But then you might as well use a modulated maser.
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That sounds suspiciously impossible.

People are always trying to come up with new weapons, at the end of the 19th century people were trying to use gas, and that came to very little. On the rare occasions it's useful it's horrific. I suspect that sonic waves will be similer to gas weapons, only very weak ones will be used to crowd control and otherwise they are useless.

At the end of the day making objects hit people quickly still works best.
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A weapon to induce vomiting. That would be useful on a battlefield.
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