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From: jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Offensive use of Sound possible?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 04:43:12 GMT
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From: jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond)

>From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>>From: tipmo@oak.circa.ufl.edu
>>	... I know that sound waves 
>>can be quite destructive if focused/handled/played-with enough and I was
>>wondering if the military has looked into this destructive capability...


As a matter of fact, they have.  When the sound gets loud enough, we
call it overpressure.  Overpressure is effeciently developed by FAE or
nukes.  

John


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