Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia • Hacker News Board

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by malfist » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:14 PM UTC

hettygreen wrote: post #8

Is there any counter measure for this? Hardcore hearing protection? Noise cancelling headphones? Handheld sound insulation "shield"?

The report I read said it relied on bone conduction, so hearing protection wouldn't do a whole lot. Only things that can attenuate low frequency sounds before it gets to the ear. So muff style headphones might work, or mass

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43377133

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by EatFlamingDeath » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC

hilux wrote: post #2

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Can you guys shut up about Trump just for a second? This is not about the United States.

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by mdhb » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

I don’t think governments should have access to the “make the protestors immediately go away” button that they can just hit whenever they want.

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by gizajob » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

malfist wrote: post #11

hettygreen wrote: post #8

Is there any counter measure for this? Hardcore hearing protection? Noise cancelling headphones? Handheld sound insulation "shield"?

The report I read said it relied on bone conduction, so hearing protection wouldn't do a whole lot. Only things that can attenuate low frequency sounds before it gets to the ear. So muff style headphones might work, or mass

Ear muffs aren’t going to do much against 160dB

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by neilv » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

I wonder how the engineers and scientists who contributed to that less-lethal weapon feel about it.

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by briandear » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

hilux wrote: post #2

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Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by aaomidi » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #16

I wonder how the engineers and scientists who contributed to that less-lethal weapon feel about it.

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Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by tptacek » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:20 PM UTC

LRADs have been used against protesters in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, France, and Germany.

Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia

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Post by casenmgreen » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:24 PM UTC

Serbia is one of the Russian-controlled Governments, along with Hungary and Georgia; these are the countries where we expect to see such attacks made to suppress protest.

(USA is not controlled, any more than say China is controlled, but is an authoritarian regime (so no real elections), so there's a shared world view, and here also I would expect to see much the same.)