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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Lethal Sound
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Date: 25 Jan 91 03:47:44 GMT
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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) writes:
> I recall reading many years ago of a French or perhaps Belgian inventor
> who developed a number of offensive and defensive devices for what might
> be called "sound warfare". He was able to produce intense (>160dB) low
> frequency sound fields through the use of air horns, and tested their
> effects on human and animal targets. Lower levels produced discomfort and

  I believe the British experimented with lethal sound in WWII. As I
remember it, it was a joke that was so funny it killed. The troops
carried loudspeakers emitting the joke translated into German. Any
Allied troop that knew German had to wear earplugs.

  This was reported by the highly respected news team of Monty
Python, so I would tend to believe it.