Friday, August 28, 2009

Defeating Acoustic Weapons

Wired covers the BBC show Bang Goes The Theory's designs to defeat acoustic weapons like the LRAD and other systems used to help protect cruise ships and for crowd control. As the article points out, simply defending from non-lethal systems may make users more of a target. Does this mean we'll see pirates attacking cruise ships while wearing giant fishbowl sound dampening helmets? Only time will tell...

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