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Home » Less-lethal » Israeli’s Sonic Blaster

Israeli’s Sonic Blaster

scream.jpgRats. I meant to blog about Israel’s new sonic weapon a week ago, when it first appeared in the local press. Now Drudge, of all peo­ple, has beaten me to the punch. Grrrr.

Israel is con­sid­er­ing using an unusual new weapon against Jewish set­tlers who resist this summer’s Gaza Strip evac­u­a­tion — a device that emits pen­e­trat­ing bursts of sound that leaves tar­gets reel­ing with dizzi­ness and nau­sea.
Security forces could employ the weapon to over­come resis­tance with­out resort­ing to force, their para­mount aim. But experts warn that the effects of pro­longed expo­sure are unknown.
The army employed the new device, which it dubbed “The Scream,” at a recent vio­lent demon­stra­tion by Palestinians and Jewish sym­pa­thiz­ers against Israel’s West Bank sep­a­ra­tion bar­rier.
Protesters cov­ered their ears and grabbed their heads, over­come by dizzi­ness and nau­sea, after the vehicle-​​mounted device began send­ing out bursts of audi­ble, but not loud, sound at inter­vals of about 10 sec­onds. An Associated Press pho­tog­ra­pher at the scene said that even after he cov­ered his ears, he con­tin­ued to hear the sound ring­ing in his head.
A mil­i­tary offi­cial said the device emits a spe­cial fre­quency that tar­gets the inner ear. Exposure for sev­eral min­utes at close range could cause audi­tory dam­age, but the noise is too intol­er­a­ble for peo­ple to remain in the area for that long.

THERE’S MORE: As Tamir notes in the com­ments, Defense Update has a bit more on the blaster.

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  1. Bill R says:
    June 10, 2005 at 3:19 pm

    BBC World Service had an inter­view or two with wit­nesses and knowl­edgable sources this morn­ing. The knowl­edge­able source spoke of infra­sound being dial­able from annoy­ing to lethal. It’s unclear to me if “the scream” is infra­sound proper or some­thing else — impli­ca­tion of “inner ear” and the name sug­gest a higher pitch than the infra­sound that res­onates the inter­nal organs.

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  2. Tamir Eshel says:
    June 12, 2005 at 3:40 am

    For details about this acoustic blaster check
    http://​www​.defense​-update​.com/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​2​0​0​4​/​s​u​m​m​a​r​y​/​L​I​C​0​4​1​-​h​s​-​n​l​w​.​htm

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  3. SIR LIAM KOPPE says:
    June 12, 2005 at 11:02 pm

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  4. Cortland says:
    June 17, 2005 at 11:46 am

    It appears from the descrip­tion and pic­ture in Defense Update that this is a vari­a­tion on an ultra­sonic device ow being mar­keted to selec­tively deliver audio in crowded shop­ping malls. There is lit­tle rea­son it could not also deliver ultra­sound. Who owns the tech­nol­ogy may be open to debate (and lit­i­ga­tion).
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  5. stephen russell says:
    June 18, 2005 at 12:49 am

    We should use this in US Federal pris­ons & State pris­ons aside rou­tine Riot con­trol & our forces in Iraq.
    Imagine aim­ing this sonic device at some caves on Iraq/​Iran bor­der OR Afgan/​Iraq bor­der alone.
    Good test base in Iraq.
    One such device can stun 100 inmates alone for secu­rity con­trol. NO more prison riots.
    Or up the amps & Execute inmates on Death Row.

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  6. stephen russell says:
    June 18, 2005 at 12:49 am

    We should use this in US Federal pris­ons & State pris­ons aside rou­tine Riot con­trol & our forces in Iraq.
    Imagine aim­ing this sonic device at some caves on Iraq/​Iran bor­der OR Afgan/​Iraq bor­der alone.
    Good test base in Iraq.
    One such device can stun 100 inmates alone for secu­rity con­trol. NO more prison riots.
    Or up the amps & Execute inmates on Death Row.

    Reply
  7. Not in my name says:
    June 18, 2005 at 1:02 pm

    Another really, really bad idea.
    Being able to just repel peo­ple with­out any risk means that it will become an every day abuse. No more protests, since a sim­ple change in the law to make them ille­gal with­out per­mis­sion will be all that is required now the entire mil­lion strong crowd of pro­test­ers can be triv­ially “dis­persed”.
    A defi­nate boon for dic­ta­tors, too, since it leaves no marks, but ensures the “masses” no longer get a say, even en mass.
    It would be great to end all prison riots for­ever. You could just kill all the inmates. That would work too. And when the inmates riot because they are being stripped, beaten, tor­tured and killed extra-​​legally, there is at least a pair of out­side eyes brought in, and per­haps a reform or two.
    No longer.
    Being able to abuse and get away with it due to your “magic scream box” must be a dream come true.

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    June 23, 2005 at 7:39 am

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  9. JP Magner says:
    July 10, 2005 at 2:05 am

    The Germans During the Third Reich had a secret weapon called the sound can­non which drove the Russians nuts in the Ural moun­tains.
    Also lets not for­get that Admiral Doenitz gave the Prototype to the Americans for the “Flying Wing”(and there is more than one)which is of course the grand-​​daddy of the U.S. B-​​2 Bomber.And of course the Jet-​​engine and so much more.Like Operation Paperclip.

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    July 11, 2005 at 5:40 am

    I am verry inter­est­ing about yhe news of the mil­i­tary in the USA I like to know more infor­ma­tion . thank for you

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    Huray! A peace­ful solu­tion. People say it can be abuse, well think of elec­tric­ity, we abuse that too. Dectators used it as a tor­ture device. Goverments around the world use it to kill, think the chair. I can give many rea­son that the sonic bomb can be abuse but think also of the ben­e­fits. Soldiers, Policemen, Prison guards don’t need to risk their lives to pro­tect your safety. Fathers, Mothers, Son, Dauthers, and Families of the peo­ple that pro­tect this coun­try don’t have to grive for the dead. So, I say use the dam thing. If it make the world a peace­ful place use it. Just remem­ber its a weapon. Anyone can use it, the good and the bad.

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  12. Matt says:
    January 10, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    JP Magner wrote: “The Germans During the Third Reich had a secret weapon called the sound can­non which drove the Russians nuts in the Ural moun­tains.“
    What on earth are you talk­ing about? The Germans never even came CLOSE to the Urals dur­ing WWII. The Nazis may have envi­sioned a “sound can­non,” but it was never deployed.

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