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2019-09-20 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese scientists develop handheld sonic weapon for crowd control

[South China Morning Post] China has developed the world’s first portable sonic gun for riot control, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said.

The rifle-shaped instrument, which was jointly developed with military and law enforcement, is designed to disperse crowds using focused waves of low frequency sound, the academy's Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry website said on Wednesday.

The device’s "biological effect" would cause extreme discomfort, with vibrations in the eardrums, eyeballs, stomach, liver, and brain, scientists said.

Studies dating to the 1940s found that low frequency sound energy could, depending upon intensity and exposure, cause dizziness, headaches, vomiting, bowel spasms, involuntary defecation, organ damage and heart attacks.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-20 04:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Was Chinese beta-testing conducted at the US Embassy Havana, Cuba ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-20 04:09|| 2019-09-20 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 That was likely some kind of defense. Notice how you stopped hearing about it, once they couldn't use it to blame foreigners.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-09-20 07:17|| 2019-09-20 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Chinese have been working on a weirding device?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-20 07:48|| 2019-09-20 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 - So it was our own weapons? You are a sick anti-American agitprop tool

Posted by Frank G 2019-09-20 09:11|| 2019-09-20 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Whatever, guy - lemme know when someone's got a working phaser or a blaster!

Posted by Raj 2019-09-20 11:48|| 2019-09-20 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 It's the most likely explanation of why it happened all at the same time all at US embassies. Some kind of anti-surveillance defense that had unexpected backlash. You'll notice the "attacks" have stopped, likely because they figured out what was happening and stopped it.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-09-20 21:41|| 2019-09-20 21:41|| Front Page Top

#7 NO, only a hate-America tool like you would make that their first assumption

Posted by Frank G 2019-09-20 22:29|| 2019-09-20 22:29|| Front Page Top

#8 It's really hard to tell where Mr. McCoy's loyalties lie.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-20 23:42|| 2019-09-20 23:42|| Front Page Top

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